Madura is a small roadhouse community located on the Eyre Highway in Western Australia, on the Roe Plains.

[2] Madura was settled in 1876 as a place to breed quality cavalry horses for the British Indian Army for use in the Northwest Frontier region of India (now part of Pakistan).

The site was chosen as it was one of the few with free flowing bore water in the area.

[3] Surrounding Madura is the Madura Shelf, 265,600 square kilometres (102,500 sq mi) of predominantly sedimentary rock, part of the Bight Basin,[4] which has been found to contain crude oil and geothermal gradients.

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