Welcome to Murchison
The Murchison Council serves 29 stations and a population up to 160, the Shire is approximately 50,000 square kilometres in size. Most properties are managed by family units and the main income is from cattle, meat sheep and some fine wool. The Murchison Shire is often referred to as the "Shire with no Town" this is because no gazetted townsite exists within the Shire and it is believed to be the only Shire in Australia where this exists.
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Natural Attractions
Errabidy Bluff
Spectacular rock formations 20 minutes drive west from Murchison Settlement with a large variety of fauna and flora.
Bilung Pool
150km north of Murchison Settlement on the Carnarvon Mullewa Road. Natural waterhole with a large cliff face over which water flows during rainfall events.
Tourism
The Murchison Museum was built in 1985 with rammed earth and timber in the style of an early station homestead and has a fine collection of pastoral artifacts. Its aim is to preserve early pioneer and ongoing pastoral history. There is a particularly well-presented and catalogued photographic record of pastoral identities, transport and local homesteads.
Road Conditions
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Murchison Settlement
The Settlement is situated on the Carnarvon-Mullewa Road and consists of the Shire office, staff housing, roadhouse, caravan park and museum , five polocrosse fields, cricket pitch, floodlit tennis courts, childrens playground, sports club and stabling for horses.