The Gunbarrel Highway is an isolated desert track in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It consists of 1400km of washaways, heavy corrugations, stone, sand and flood plains, and runs from Wiluna in the west to Yulara (via Jackie Junction and Docker River) in the east. Some of the eastern section of the road is now named the Tjukaruru Road for the Aboriginal people that live in this area. Jump to: navigation, search Motto: Cygnis Insignis (Distinguished by its swans) Nickname: Wildflower State Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Government Governor Premier Const. ... Motto: None Nickname: ? Other Australian states and territories Capital Darwin Government Administrator Chief Minister Const. ... Wiluna is a town and shire in the Mid West region of Western Australia. ... Yulara is an isolated town in Australias Northern Territory with approximately 2,000 inhabitants. ... Australian Aborigines are the main indigenous people of Australia. ...
The Gunbarrel Highway was the first road built as part of Australia's role in the weapons research facility called Woomera; the atomic bomb testing site in this area later named Maralinga. The highway was surveyed and constructed under the direction of legendary bushman Len Beadell, who was responsible for numerous other roads in Australia that opened up some of the most remote desert areas of the continent in the late 1940s and 1950s. Woomera Launchpad in the 60s Woomera (31°09′ S 136°48′ E) is a town in South Australia, 488 km north of Adelaide, along the Stuart Highway. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... Maralinga is a small town in the desert of South Australia, famous for nuclear tests that took place there in the 1950s. ... Len Beadell (b. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends and events and trends and events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom...
The GunbarrelHighway is without a doubt one of the most famous tracks in Australia.
The Gunbarrel as it is loosely defined nowadays runs from Wiluna to the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and includes part of the Great Central Road, the Heather Highway and the connecting road from Wiluna, West of Carnegie Station.
Although this stretch of 350 kilometers was not part of the old Gunbarrel, it is now generally considered to form an integral part of a GunbarrelHighway trip.
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