Cooya Pooya
Coordinates: 21°02′02″S 117°08′20″E / 21.034°S 117.139°E Cooya Pooya Station most often referred to as Cooya Pooya or Cooyapooya is a pastoral lease operating as a sheep station in Western Australia.
The property is situated approximately 29 kilometres (18 mi) south of Roebourne and 60 kilometres (37 mi) south east of Dampier along the banks of the Harding River in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The country is composed of open grassy plains and underlying slopes covered with spinifex. The unusual name of the station is a corruption of Cooa Pooey, the Aboriginal name of a water hole near the homestead.
The first settlers in the area were the pastoralists W. A. Taylor and Thomas Lockyer, during the mid-1860s. Several years later, Taylor sold his interests and left the area, which had already become known as "Cooyapooyo", "Cooyapooya" and "Cooya Pooya".
Lockyer, who arrived from Northam, had originally named his lease "Table Hill Station". By 1885 Lockyer and his four sons had a flock of 28,000 sheep which were shorn to produce 220 bales of wool. The Lockyers acquired a run further inland on the Fortescue River which when combined with Table Hill had a total area of 900,000 acres (3,642 km2) of which 150,000 acres (607 km2) were enclosed in sheep proof fencing dividing it into eight paddocks. The merged station became known as "Cooya Pooya".
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