The Mundrabilla Station was the first stock breeding station on the Nullarbor Plain . It was built in 1872 by the Scottish-born William Stuart McGill and the Irish-born Thomas and William Kennedy. Thomas Kennedy died in 1896 and McGill's first wife Annie (nee Hairkness) died in childbirth in 1879. Annie McGill and Thomas Kennedy were buried at Mundrabilla Station. McGill married Ellen Angel Fairweather in Adelaide in 1889 .
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Like other settlements in the Nullarbor Plain , this one consists only of the buildings of a roadhouse, which opens at 5:30 a.m. every day. The Roadhouse runs a small game park with emus , camels and an aviary . In the area around Mundrabilla there is now dairy farming.
Mundrabilla meteorite
Pieces of meteorites fell over an area of 60 kilometers in length. This made it one of the largest areas on earth where meteorite debris fell. The largest meteorite in Australia, the Mundrabilla meteorite, the main mass of which weighed 9.980 tons, was discovered by two people in 1966 near Mundrabilla. Another matching smaller section weighed 5,440 tons. The meteorite, which formed 3.9 billion years ago, fell on Earth millions of years ago.
