Ngeatalling Pool

Statement of Significance

The pool is important for its association with the development of the pastoral industry in
the region and with pioneering families.

Physical Description

One of a series of permanent pools in the Boyerine Creek which flows north from the
Moojebing/Marracoonda area into Norring Lake. From the north the most significant of
the pools are the Dolapin, Noomberring, Boyerine, Bintamilling, Ngeatalling and Round
Pools.

The pool is approximately mid way between the Boyerine and Woodanilling townsites
and just to the south of Bintamilling Pool.

It is situated in a deep narrow stretch of the Boyerine Creek. When inspected in May
2000 it contained some water over a length of some 200 metres with depths up to 0.5
metres.

History

The pool provided fresh water for early pastoralists, shepherds and their flocks of sheep.
They were also a source of water for sandalwood cutters and carters in the early days of
European settlement. The Quartermaine family had from the mid 1860's held huge
pastoral leases on the Boyerine Creek. Extending northwards from their base at
Yowangup, some 65,000 acres were held in this manner up to William Andrews' holding
around Norring Lake. In 1868 Elijah Quartermaine (Junior) took the northern leases over
in his own right and after freeholding land at his home at Boyamine secured permanency
at the creek pools by buying 40 acre blocks surrounding Boyerine Pool (1873),
Ngeatalling Pool (1878) and Dolapin Pool (1879).

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