Connie Sue Highway
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Trans Access Road Rawlinna ( WA ) ( 31 ° 1 ′ S , 125 ° 19 ′ E ) |
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Great Central Road Warburton ( WA ) ( 26 ° 13 ' S , 126 ° 40' O ) |
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| Overall length: | 646 km | ||||||||||||||||||
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Map with all coordinates: The Connie Sue Highway is an outback runway in the southeast of the Australian state of Western Australia . It connects the Trans Access Road (service route of the Trans- Australian Railroad ) in Rawlinna with the Great Central Road in the Aboriginal community of Warburton .
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 early 1960s, the Gunbarrel Highway was created and later the Anne Beadell Highway (named after his wife), the Connie Sue Highway (1962, named after his daughter) and the Gary Highway (named after his son).
course
The Connie Sue Highway branches off in Rawlinna from the Trans Access Road, which is not open to the public, to the north. To the south there is a 144 km long track that meets the Eyre Highway (N1) at the Cocklebiddy Motel . On its way north, the Connie Sue Highway crosses the Nullarbor Plain and the Great Victoria Desert . He opens up various sheep breeding stations and Aboriginal communities. Premier Downs is located directly on the slopes , where a slope branches off to the east to the Yurrannia reserve . 93 km further north there is a dirt road to the Plumridge Lakes Nature Reserve west of the route and another 40 km further a road branches off to the Aboriginal community of Tjuntjuntjarra to the east. This is where the Connie Sue Highway enters the Great Victoria Desert.
163 km north of this junction is Neale Junction (in the state reserve of the same name), where the Anne Beadell Highway crosses. The Connie Sue Highway continues north and crosses the Yapuparra Aboriginal Reserve before reaching the Great Central Road and thus its end in Warburton in the Central Reserve .
Road conditions, fuel and permits
The dirt road goes through a very remote area with no water, food or fuel. The only refueling point is in Warburton or south on the Eyre Highway in Caiguna or Cocklebiddy. A four-wheel drive vehicle is required for the trip . The passage takes about four days under good conditions.
A permit is required to cross the Ngaanyatjarra area , which is available free of charge from the Department of Indigenous Affairs.
swell
- 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
- Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 91
Individual evidence
- ↑ Permit request (English)