Gary Highway

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Western Australia

The Gary Highway is a very remote outback track in the center of the Australian state of Western Australia. It connects the Gunbarrel Highway at Everard Junction with the Gary Junction Road and Track in Gary Jenkins Junction.

History

Len Beadell, an Australian surveyor, was entrusted by the government with the search for a suitable testing ground for nuclear weapons, which he eventually found with Woomera. In the exploration of the borderland between Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory he had put together different outback trails, which he named after his crew and various family members.

So in the early 1960s was initially the Gunbarrel Highway and the Anne Beadell Highway and later ( after his wife named), the Connie Sue Highway ( named after his daughter ) and the Gary Highway (1963, named after his son).

Course

The Gary Highway branches off in Everard Junction on the Gunbarrel Highway to the north. It crosses the Gibson Desert Nature Reserve, a state nature reserve and the entire Gibson Desert. At Windy Corner branches off to the west of the Talawana track that leads to Lake Disappointment.

56 km further north branches off to the northeast, a 16 km long access road to the Veevers crater, a meteor crater from. 83 km further Gary Junction is reached in the southern Great Sandy Desert, where the road meets the Gary Junction Road and ends.

The Gary Highway is one of the two routes in Western Australia, which run in a north-south direction; the other is the Junction Road Sandy Blight.

Attractions

  • Veevers crater, 16 km east of the highway
  • Tropic of Capricorn with different signs that illustrate the shift of the Tropic over time
  • Windy Corner, turn off at the end of Talawana track; the origin of the name Windy Corner said Len Beadell in Len Beadell
  • McDougall Knoll
  • The turnoff to Eagle Highway
  • Gibson Desert Nature Reserve with the McPhersons Pillar
  • Charlies Knob

And fuel supply

The track is located in a very remote area. Even the start and end points are still several hundred kilometers away from settlements and utilities. The next lie to the north Kunawaritji on the Canning Stock Route, in the southeast 300 km from Everard Junction the Warburton Roadhouse and Carnegie in the west station. Therefore, it is travelers are strongly advised to carry sufficient water, food, fuel, spare parts and emergency radio or a satellite phone with him.

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. Pp. 90 91

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