Gary Highway

Gary Highway
Basic data
Operator:	Main Roads
Start of the street:	Gunbarrel Highway Everard Junction ( WA ) ( 25 ° 15 ′  S , 124 ° 51 ′  E )
End of street:	Gary Junction Road Jenkins Track Gary Junction ( WA ) ( 22 ° 48 ′  S , 125 ° 33 ′  E )
Overall length:	323 km
States :	Western Australia
Gary Highway at Everard Junction

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

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 the Jenkins Track in Gary Junction .

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.

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

course

The Gary Highway branches off at Everard Junction from 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 , the Talawana Track branches off to the west and leads to Lake Disappointment .

56 km further north, a 16 km long cul-de-sac branches off to the northeast to the Veevers crater , a meteorite crater . 83 km further is Gary Junction in the southern Great Sands , where the road meets and ends with Gary Junction Road.

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

Attractions

• Veevers Crater , 10 miles east of the highway
• Tropic of Capricorn with various information boards that illustrate the shift in the tropics over time
• Windy Corner , turnoff at the end of the Talawana Track ; Len Beadell explained the origin of the name Windy Corner in Len Beadell
• McDougall Knoll
• The turnoff to the Eagle Highway
• Gibson Desert Nature Reserve with the McPhersons Pillar
• Charlie's Knob

and display information about the image

Panoramic image of the Veevers meteorite crater

Fuel and supplies

The track is in a very remote area. Even the start and end points are several hundred kilometers away from settlements and utilities. Closest to the north are Kunawaritji on the Canning Stock Route , to the southeast 300 km from Everard Junction, Warburton Roadhouse and to the west, Carnegie Station . Therefore, travelers are strongly advised to have sufficient water, food, fuel, spare parts and a radio or satellite phone in case of emergencies .

source

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map and information about the Gary Highway at maps.boozle.com ( English ). Accessed April 9, 2009.
2. ^ Veevers Meteorite Crater, Gary Junction via Telfer, WA, Australia ( English ) In: Australian Heritage database . Retrieved April 9, 2009.
3. ↑ Len Beadell: End of an era . Weldon, Sydney 1983, ISBN 0-947116-74-5 .