| Mallina
Station
Latitude : 20 53 S Longitude : 118 02 E
The townsite of Mallina is located in the Pilbara district,
1665 km from Perth, between Roebourne and Port Hedland. Now abandoned,
Mallina owed its existence to gold discoveries. Gold was discovered
here in 1887 when Jimmy Withnell picked up a stone to throw at a crow,
and discovered it was smothered with gold. A rich reef was also discovered
in 1888. The government decided to create a townsite here in 1894,
surveys being made in 1895 and the townsite gazetted in 1896
Mallina derives its name from Mallina Pool, the Aboriginal
name of pool in the Peawah River. The name of the pool has been shown
on maps since 1879 when a pastoral lease was taken up here, and in
1881 N W Cooke leased the land and named his property "Mallina".
The mining centre later utilised the same name. The meaning of the
name is not known,
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Western Australian Department of Agriculture
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