Juna Downs
{{Short description|Pastoral lease in Western Australia}}
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Juna Downs Station, often referred to as Juna, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station.
It is located about {{convert|75|km|mi|0}} east of Tom Price and {{convert|140|km|mi|0}} north west of Newman in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The station's western boundary abuts Karijini National Park,{{cite web|url=http://www.karijiniecoretreat.com.au/data/deposit/site.document.689.documents/karijini_map_may_2004.pdf|title=Karijini National Park|accessdate=13 December 2015|publisher=Department of Conservation and Land Management}} and access to Western Australia's highest point, Mount Meharry, is through the boundaries of the station.{{cite web|url=http://www.australianexplorer.com/juna_downs.htm|title=Juna Downs|accessdate=13 December 2015|publisher=Australian Explorer}}
The mining company Hamersley Iron, a part of Rio Tinto, currently owns Juna. Rio Tinto owns another five stations in the Pilbara, including Yarraloola, Hamersley and Rocklea. Collectively the properties run a herd of approximately 24,000 cattle.{{cite web|url=http://www.riotinto.com/ironore/operations-9602.aspx|title=Operations|year=2013|accessdate=13 December 2015|publisher=Rio Tinto}}
The Panyjima people are the traditional owners of the area in which Juna Downs is located.
The last Aboriginal person to live or work on the property left in the 1960s.
The lessee of the property in 1983 was Matt Herbert.{{cite web|url=http://www.drbilldayanthropologist.com/resources/Banyjima%20man%20Percy%20Tucker.pdf|title=My father’s father was Wirrilimarra (Bob Tucker)|accessdate=13 December 2015}} The Herbert family later sold the property to Rio Tinto.{{cite web|url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/19940114/mining-contractor-buys-stowe-farm/|title=Mining contractor buys Stowe farm|author=Rhianna King|date=23 November 2013|accessdate=13 December 2015|work=The West Australian|publisher=Yahoo 7}}