The sale of Australia's largest sheep station to a foreign buyer has been given the tick of approval by the WA government after almost seven months of waiting.

The UK-based Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) will be the new owners of Rawlinna Station, about 400 kilometres east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

The million-hectare station was established in the 1960s on the remote Nullarbor and covers an area roughly the size of Sydney.

In early March privately-owned CPC agreed to buy Rawlinna for an undisclosed sum from long-time owner Adelaide-based Jumbuck Pastoral.

The deal included a flock of about 30,000 sheep and was subject to several conditions, including approval by the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) and the WA government, which needed to sign off on the transfer of the pastoral

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