Nundroo is located on the Eyre Highway 160 kilometres west of Ceduna and 347 kilometres east of the S.A./W.A Border. Edward John Eyre's truly remarkable crossing of The Great Australian Bight and the Nullarbor Plain in 1840 is the feat for which he is best remembered and where the highway gets its name.

Twenty years later in the 1860s the Nundroo area was settled by pioneering sheep graziers. By the 1870s Nundroo station itself had been incorporated into the much larger Yalata and Fowler's Bay Sheep Runs which ran for several hundred kilometres in an East West direction along the Far West South Australian Coastline.

In those days Aboriginal Shepard's were frequently employed to tend the sheep stock. By the 1880s these vast sheep runs were broken up as the original pastoral land leases expired. The area was then opened up to more intensive farming practices including some wheat farming.

Today the area still continues with its tradition of sheep grazing and grain growing even though the area is rather marginal for this purpose. For the traveller crossing the Nullarbor Nundroo is very much a welcome rest stop.

In the middle 1950's George Chick purchased land from the Fox Family and built the Nundroo Hotel Motel opening it on the 31st December 1957. The land was called karincubie, (car-ink-cubby) aboriginal for lizard drinking water as the land is rich in underground spring water. Chick erected a bird sanctuary and also had wombats, camels and kangaroos on display.

There is a memorial to George located in front of the complex.