Anne Beadell Highway
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 Stuart HighwayCoober Pedy ( SA ) ( 29 ° 1 ′ S , 134 ° 43 ′ E ) |
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Great Central Road Laverton Leonora Road Laverton ( WA ) ( 28 ° 37 ′ S , 122 ° 25 ′ E ) |
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Map with all coordinates: The Anne Beadell Highway is an unpaved outback track in the west of the Australian state of South Australia and in the southeast of Western Australia . It connects the Stuart Highway in Coober Pedy (SA) with the Great Central Road in Laverton (WA).
history
Len Beadell , an Australian surveyor, was entrusted by the government with the search for a suitable test site for nuclear weapons, which he eventually found with Woomera . While exploring the border area between Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory , he had various outback slopes created, which he named after his crew and various family members.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Gunbarrel Highway , the Anne Beadell Highway (named after his wife), the Connie Sue Highway (named after his daughter) and the Gary Highway (named after his son) were created.
course
The total length of the road is 1,340 kilometers. It runs through the Great Victoria Desert . There are no settlements on the entire route, only three farms are off the slopes. Temperatures reach up to 50 ° C in summer. Red sand dunes define the landscape for a large part of the route.
South Australia
From Coober Pedy on the Stuart Highway (NA87), where there is also a refueling facility, the track leads west. After about 50 kilometers she enters the Woomera Prohibited Area . Another 50 kilometers to the west, the dingo fence crosses the Anne Beadell Highway, which then crosses the Tallaringa Conservation Park , a state reserve for desert terrain. The Tallaringa Well is a former borehole whose water is potable. At Emu Junction the road reaches the former test site for atomic bombs, a little further on, at Anne's Corner , Mount Davies Road joins from the north . The road leaves the Woomera Prohibited Area about 20 kilometers further west.
After crossing the Mamungari Conservation Park , a world biosphere reserve previously called Unnamed Conservation Park , the Serpentine Lakes border with Western Australia. Almost all of the territory of South Australia that the runway crosses is land of the Maralinga-Tjarutja indigenous people . Therefore, a special permit is required to use the road.
Western Australia
When crossing the border, the road enters the Spinifex Native Title Area , the land of the Tjuntjunjara people . For this purpose, a further permit is required. The Ilkurlka Roadhouse is 167 kilometers west of the border , where the Aboriginal Business Road (Madura Loongana Track) crosses and the only refueling point is on the Anne Beadell Highway. Another 173 kilometers further west, the Connie Sue Highway crosses the Neale Junction . The wider area around this intersection is another state reserve in the Great Victoria Desert as the Neale Junction Nature Reserve . Another permit is required to drive through.
Approx. 190 kilometers to the west is Yeo Lake , a large salt lake with a surrounding protected area of the same name. On the south bank, along which the Anne Beadell Highway runs, lie the ruins of the former Homestead Yeo . Approx. Yamarna farm is 40 kilometers to the west . After crossing the Aboriginal reservation of Cosmo Newberry , the exit to Homestead White Cliffs is reached. From there it is just under 60 kilometers to Laverton, where the slope ends and there is another refueling facility.
Fuel and supplies
The road is only suitable for four-wheel drive vehicles. There are no settlements between Coober Pedy and Laverton. In 2003 the Ilkurlka Roadhouse was opened. The Roadhouse, it is considered to be the most remote in Australia, mainly supplies the Tjuntjunjara settlements in the surrounding area. Travelers are strongly advised to have adequate water, food and fuel with them. The longest route without a petrol station between Ilkurlka and Coober Pedy is 750 kilometers.
In good conditions you need five days for the entire route. However, you should always expect breakdowns, flat tires and so-called 'flash floods'. The road is very remote and not signposted. A radio is therefore strongly recommended, a GPS is advisable.
Attractions
172 kilometers west of Ilkurlka is Neale Junction, where the Anne Beadell Highway and Connie Sue Highway intersect.
The road passes through Emu Field , the site of the British and Australian government's nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s, nature reserves and indigenous lands, and crosses rabbit and dingo fences. This travelers need different licenses (permits) , which are also both received free of charge as a charge at various facilities of the National Park Authority of South Australia, the Council of the Maralinga-Tjarutja-people, and the Department of Indigenous Affairs in Western Australia to.
Other sights include the wreck of a sport airplane near the route in Western Australia and the Mamungari Conservation Park , one of the twelve biosphere reserves in Australia.
literature
- Otmar Lind, Andrea Niehues: Australia Outback Handbook. 4th edition. Reise Know-How Edgar Hoff Verlag, Rappweiler 2008, ISBN 978-3-923716-24-1 .
- Rob van Driesum: Outback Australia , 3rd edition. Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd., Footscray 2002, ISBN 1-86450-187-1
- Australia's great desert tracks . Hema Maps, Eight Mile Plains QLD 2005. 3rd edition Scale: 1: 1,250,000; Lambert conformal conic proj. (E 119 ° 00 '- E 129 ° 20' / S 024 ° 35 '- S 032 ° 30') ISBN 1865001619
Web links
- ExplorOZ.com: Anne Beadell Highway . ITBeyond Pty Ltd, 2013, accessed February 22, 2013 .
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 72, 74, 91