Gunbarrel Highway
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The Gunbarrel Highway is an isolated desert track in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. It consists of about 1,350 km of washaways, heavy corrugations, stone, sand and floo
Gunbarrel Highway 26 Jun 2007
A sign marking the boundary of Victory Downs, the beginning of the original Gunbarrel Highway. This section is now known as Mulga Park Road.
A sign at Wiluna, Western Australia.
Mt. Beadell on the Gunbarrel Highway
Len Beadell
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Leonard Beadell OAM BEM FIEMS was a surveyor, road builder, bushman, artist and author, responsible for constructing over 6,000 km of roads and opening up isolated desert areas – some 2.5 million squa
Gunbarrel Highway
…role in the weapons research establishment called Woomera which included Emu Field and Maralinga, both atomic bomb testing sites. The name comes from Len Beadell's Gunbarrel Road Construction Party, so named as his intention was to build roads as straight as a gunbarrel. The highway was protested by the Australian…
Len Beadell OAM, BEM, FIEMS
Neale Junction - a Len Beadell marker plate photographed in June 2007