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Mardie Station is a pastoral lease and sheep then cattle station that was established in 1866 in the Pilbara region of Western Australia near the mouth of the Fortescue River. The lessee in 2012 was Fourseasons Corporation; Mardie is operating under the Crown Lease number CL453-1984 and has the Land Act number LA3114/1027.
The Murray Squatting Company, composed of Cornish, Richardson and the Paterson brothers, sold Yeeda Station in the Kimberley in 1883 and acquired Mardie shortly afterwards paying a "handsome price for the Fortescue River Station". Richardson maintained an interest in Mardie over the next 30 years and invested in other nearby properties including Oakabella, Tallering and Boodarie Station Stations.
The station was owned at one time by members of the Withnell family who had also established or owned many other stations in the North West including Sherlock Station, Mount Welcome, Mallina, Karratha, Chirritta and Edjudina.
The station covers an area of about and has over 8,000 head of specially bred cattle.
The station was hard hit by flooding in 1894 when the Fortescue River, usually about away from the homestead, rose to within metres of the front door. The stockyards were destroyed and hundreds of sheep were washed away.
James Withnell, the owner of Dirk Hartog Station acquired Mardie in 1913 from the Mardie Pastoral Company. At this stage the property occupied an area of and was carrying a flock of 19,000 sheep.
The station was sold by Withnell to B. H. Sharpe who owned Wooleen Station, along with 30,000 head of sheep and 100 cattle in 1923 for £50,000.
It switched from sheep to cattle in 1998. It is owned by CITIC Pacific, a Hong Kong–based company, who bought the station in 2007.
The station is home to the largest infestation of mesquite in the state, following the introduction of two trees as shade trees around the homestead and shearing shed in the 1930s; it is estimated that around contain the plant. About of the infestation is described as dense. Stock must be in paddocks free of mesquite so the seeds can pass through their guts before they can be moved on to prevent the pest from spreading further.
The station experienced heavy rains followed by flooding during Cyclone Monty in 2004 then again in 2009. Fences were swept away, roads were cut and cattle were stranded when of rain fell in a few hours.
The property is also home to one of the largest holes ever dug in the earth. Sino Iron, a Chinese iron producer, is mining magnetite at Mardie and planning an open cut mine of long, wide and hundreds of metres deep. The company has a 25-year lease obtained in a deal with billionaire Clive Palmer.
On 19 February 1998, Mardie recorded a maximum temperature of , which at the time was the highest temperature on record for anywhere in Western Australia, the highest February temperature recorded in Australia, and the second-highest temperature recorded anywhere in Australia. This temperature was recorded during a heatwave that affected the Pilbara region in February 1998, which also saw several other centres (such as Roebourne) record temperatures above .
Mardie's record for the highest temperature ever recorded in Western Australia was broken on 13 January 2022, when Onslow recorded a temperature of . Mardie reached again on the same day, equalling its own temperature record.
On 19 February 1975, during Cyclone Trixie, the station recorded several wind gusts of at least , the highest wind gust in Australia at that time; the figure given was the limit of the anemometer, so the gusts may have been higher than measured.
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