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Air Beef: When the Kimberley cattle industry took flight

The port town of Wyndham below the Bastion Range in northern WA. Picture: Kimberley Port Authority.

BARELY a trace of what was once the largest meatworks in the Southern Hemisphere remains at Wyndham today.

But the location of its various buildings can still be traced from the Five Rivers Lookout above, perched atop the Bastion Range which towers over the far northern WA port town.

The WA Government built meatworks initially supplied meat to Perth and to the WA gold fields and for export to the UK, employing between 1600 and 2000 workers during each May to September season.

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