It is located about 370 kilometres (230 mi) east of Kambalda and 385 kilometres (239 mi) north east of Norseman on the western edge of the Nullarbor plain in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.
Kinclaven occupies an area of 4,967 square kilometres (1,918 sq mi) and is mostly composed of deflated limestone plains with regular karst depressions surrounded by bindii grasslands along with areas of calcrete plains covered with myall woodlands and mixed shrubland.
[2] The area was first used for pastoral pursuits in the early 1900s by J. D. Ryan, who ran stock to supply meat to the workers on the Trans-Australian Railway line, which passed through the holding.
By the 1930s the Dimers had sunk more wells in the area and installed windmills, the built cattle yards and constructed a small cottage on the property.
In 1971 the Hogg family acquired the leases for 1,619 square kilometres (625 sq mi) between Seemore Downs and Gunnadorah and named it Kinclaven after the Scottish village where he had been born.