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	Gunbarrel Highway - Wikitravel
		The Gunbarrel Highway 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 Gunbarrel Highway trip.
	wikitravel.org /en/Gunbarrel_Highway (1626 words)

	Gunbarrel Highway by Nigel Buxton
		The Gunbarrel Highway was the first of a series of roads surveyed by the late Len Beadell.
		Kites, eagles, parrots, budgerigars and bustards are representatives of the avian world that frequent the area crossed by the Gunbarrel Highway.
		The original grader for the Highway is kept at Giles, preserved by the army in "Lenny's Cat Cage".
	www.pps.net.au /4wdencounter/readtrips/gunbarrel.html (1427 words)

	The Gunbarrel Highway (Western Australia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Gunbarrel Highway is one of those highways not for the faint-hearted.
		It's a highway I had planned to travel in a 2WD vehicle and eventually thought better of it.
		The only part of the highway that can remotely lend itself to the name highway would be the section from Wiluna in Western Australia through to Carnegie Station (344km in length).
	wilderness.esmartweb.com /WA/gun.html (124 words)

	Gunbarrel Highway & The Great Central Road
		The Gunbarrel Highway takes its name from the 'Gunbarrel Road Construction Party' which, under the leadership of famous surveyor, the late Len Beadell, built a network of desert highways to service Woomera and the Giles meteorological station.
		Of these highways, the Gunbarrel (Wiluna to Docker River) and the Great Central Road (Laverton to Warburton) are the most well-known and used.
		Nowadays, it's impossible to drive the entire length of the original Gunbarrel Highway because some sections of it have been abandoned and other sections pass through Aboriginal land with restricted access.
	www.openroad.com.au /travel_4wd_greatcentralroad.asp (2191 words)

	Gunbarrel, Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The first mention of Gunbarrel actually dates from more than a century ago, in the 1860s.
		With their horse-drawn wagon, they pulled onto a high point on the plains (now known as Gunbarrel Hill) where they could look to the east and see the large tree.
		Long before the creation of the Longmont Diagonal Highway (Colorado 119), the Gunbarrel Road was the main stagecoach route between Boulder and Longmont.
	www.gunbarrel.net /histname.shtml (235 words)

	Gunbarrel Highway @ ExplorOz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The "Gunbarrel Highway" is an isolated desert track of 1400km from Wiluna to Yulara (via Jackie Junction and Docker River).
		You can pick up the Gunbarrel from either Wiluna in the west, or Giles (Warakurna Roadhouse) in the east and so it is usually done as an extension/beginning of a Canning Stock Route, West McDonald Ranges or Tanami trek.
		This is the "abandoned section" of the Gunbarrel and conditions deteriorate at this junction.
	www.exploroz.com /TrekNotes/WDeserts/Gunbarrel_Highway.asp (2361 words)

	Outback Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Outback Highway or Outback Way is a series of roads and dirt tracks linking Winton, Queensland and Laverton, Western Australia.
		It is being developed to provide an inland route between southern Western Australia and northern Queensland as an alternative to the National Highway 1 along either coast.
		Like any outback highways, drivers should use 4wd vehicles, be well prepared and obtain the relevant permits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Outback_Highway (142 words)

	Beadell Desert Updates
		This piece of road was constructed by the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party in 1963, and was the second to last road made before the ending of the road project.
		At around the same time my 50 miles west of Giles replica on the old Gunbarrel Highway was stolen and I must say that I began to wonder if I was beating my head against a brick wall by trying to keep these pieces of history alive.
		The old Gunbarrel from the Patjarr turnoff to Warakurna is good barring some rocky creek crossings, but has also suffered some fires (our 70 miles west of Giles plaque had the narrowest escape).
	www.beadell.com.au /lb_desert_updates.htm (5669 words)

	pggunbarrelhwy
		We take the Gunbarrel highway which starts behind Ayers Rock and goes all the way to Laverton, almost 1200 km straight through the Great Victoria Desert.
		At Warburton the Gunbarrel highway splits in two, in the real Gunbarrel highway and the Warburton road.
		At the roadhouse the people tell us that the real Gunbarrel is very difficult to drive and therefore no one is driving it the summer.
	www.geocities.com /bikebrothers/pggunbarrelhwy.html (314 words)

	Australia's Outback - The Gunbarrel Highway
		The history of the Gunbarrel construction is also described in the Len Beadell section.
		The Gunbarrel was realigned in the seventies, as there was no more need for the rocket range observations, but all the more for a road link between Alice Springs and Perth.
		The eagle highway crosses the Gunbarrel in the middle of the reserve- that's your last chance to escape to the Leonora road if you're facing any problems.
	www.landroverclub.net /Club/HTML/Australia_Gunbarrel.htm (2851 words)

	Beadell Tours
		Our Gunbarrel Highway tour is a trip through time concentrating on the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party, early Explorers and Aboriginal Culture.
		Len Beadell & his "Gunbarrel Road Construction Party" laid in the first road to cross the arid centre of Australia in the late 1950s, called the Gunbarrel Highway as Len had a tendency to make roads as straight as possible.
		Picking up the Gunbarrel Highway again we slowly pass through the sandhills that hold the 133 year old secret of Alfred Gibson.
	www.beadell.com.au /lb_tours.htm (909 words)

	Gunbarrel Highway
		The Gunbarrel Highway was the first road built as part of Australia's role in the weapons research facility called Woomera.
		The area of land designated between Woomera and 80 Mile Beach near Port Headland was chosen as the most suitable area in the world for a rocket range, but it was an uninhabited desert waste-land in the most remote part of Australia.
		The Gunbarrel Highway was the first of the Len Beadell roads and so is a very historical journey for people taking the trip today.
	www.goannas.net /frames/gunbarrel/index.html (796 words)

	Gunbarrel Colorado Real Estate and Gunbarrel CO Homes
		Incorporated in 1963, Gunbarrel Colorado is estimated to cover 6.4 square miles.
		Gunbarrel began as a 668 acre subdivision shortly after construction of IBM's plant near 63rd Street and the Diagonal Highway.
		Located just 2 miles from Boulder (Jay Road) and 6 miles southwest of Longmont along the Diagonal Highway, the town is situated nicely between the two cities with awesome views of the Front Range mountains.
	www.coloradosbestbroker.com /artman/publish/gunbarrel_colorado.html (249 words)

	Gunbarrel Highway, Outback Country WA Australia
		The approximate 3,500 kilometre Gunbarrel Highway takes its name from the so called 'Gunbarrel Construction Party' who under the supervision of the surveyor Len Beadell constructed a road via Victory Downs near the Northern Territory/South Australian border, east across to Giles, and on to Carnegie Station in Western Australia.
		The Gunbarrel Highway should only be attempted in four wheel drive high clearance vehicles.
		Heather Highway turn-off to Warburton - One-hundred and twenty-six kilometres, this road having been more recently constructed by the Wiluna Shire is quite good with speeds of between seventy and eighty kilometres per hour possible.
	www.totaltravel.com.au /travel/wa/goldfields/outbackwa/guide/gunbarrel-highway (1357 words)

	Gunbarrel Highway 4WD
		The Gunbarrel Highway was built by Len Beadell (1923-1995) and his team.
		The secret to a successful crossing of the Gunbarrel Highway is adequate preparation.
		The original grader for the Highway is kept at Giles, preserved by the army in "Lenny's Cat Cage" (above).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /ecars/Places/Au/Gunbarrel/Highway.html (1695 words)

	Riesel's Canning stock route trip
		The Connie Sue, he named after his Daughter, and the Gunbarrel he named because he felt it had a nice sound to it.
		Three days after leaving Melbourne we arrived at Cocklebiddy, which is on the Nullarbor plains, and is the southern end of the Connie Sue Hwy.
		This "Highway" has an east west bearing, and we headed west towards Carnegie Station.
	members.optusnet.com.au /robfri/canning.html (816 words)

	The Gunbarrel Highway
		The Gunbarrel Highway, one of the roads created by Len Beadell's Gunbarrel Road Construction Party, between 1956 and 1958 in Central Australia.
		The road goes all the way starting from the Stuart Highway, just South of Kulgara in the Northern Territory to Carnegie Station (and on to Wiluna) in Western Australia.
		These days, roads like the Gunbarrel Highway, are mostly used for recreational purposes and for the benefit of Australian garage owners (the road is very corrugated).
	bluegumpictures.com.au /australia/thegunbarrelhighwaywesternaustralia.php (168 words)

	Shire of Wiluna - Tourism
		The Gunbarrel Highway was explored and surveyed by Len Beadell, with completion of the last section of the road in 1958.
		The Gunbarrel Highway is a popular 4WD route that directly connects Western Australia to many popular tourist destinations in central Australia.
		Contact the Shire of Wiluna office for information on the section of the Gunbarrel Highway that is inside the Shire.s boundary.
	www.wiluna.wa.gov.au /tourism/index.html (338 words)

	Hunt Oil Road WA
		The Hunt Oil road is a short track between the Gunbarrel Highway and the Great Central Road in the Great Victoria Desert.
		Not as popular as the David Carnegie Road (formerly the "Eagle Highway") to Empress Springs, it still passes through some interesting country.
		Since the bikes had limited carrying capacity for fuel and water as well as the safety aspect, I had arranged to be at the bore 1 day before the bikes were due.
	www.4wdonline.com /Places/Au/WA-mid/HuntOilRd.html (1085 words)

	CBoM - History of Giles Weather Station
		Giles is the resting place of the Caterpillar grader which was used to build the Gunbarrel Highway, and other roads in the area.
		It was then assigned to the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party, led by surveyor Len Beadell from the Department of Defence, commencing work in the area in 1955.
		The Gunbarrel Highway was the first east-west link across Central Australia.
	www.bom.gov.au /weather/sa/giles/history.shtml (686 words)

	Gunbarrel Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some of the eastern section of the road is now named the Tjukaruru Road for the Aboriginal people that live in this area.
		Be totally self-sufficient with water, food and fuel (the longest distance between fuel outlets is 489 km, between Carnegie Station and Warburton).
		Its name comes from Len Beadell's Gunbarrel Construction Team which opened up a big chunk of Australia's interior during the 1950s and 1960s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gunbarrel_Highway (337 words)

	Australia 2002 - Photo album and report of a 20.000 km 4WD trip through remote areas Down Under
		The Gunbarrel Highways runs through the Gibson Desert, one of the most remote areas of Australia.
		Careful preparation of your vehicle is required to be able to cope with the heavy corrugations and remoteness of this country.
		The Gunbarrel Highway was constucted in the late fifties by surveyor Len Beadell and his party, as a major service road for the rocket program undertaken at Woomera.
	www.millhouse.nl /2002-3-8.html (227 words)

	Canning Stock Route Trip 1992
		Maps were the R.A.C for Gunbarrel and CSR, both excellent and Steve arranged the permits for entry.
		Went through Armadale and onto Roe highway and then to Great Northern Highway, making good time, plenty of talk on CB, and some smug looks at other vehicles - people heading off to work I can be a bit of a mongrel sometimes.
		Got to the junction of Gunbarrel and Heather highways at 11:00 hrs, and proceeded onto the "abandoned section of the gunbarrel".
	members.iinet.net.au /~boucaut/id19.htm (4651 words)

	WA Wiluna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It was once the centre of a rich goldfield and in the 1920s and 1930s boasted a population of more than 7,000 people.
		Wiluna is the starting point for both the Canning Stock Route and the Gunbarrel Highway.
		The Gunbarrel Highway is a different route east for the knowledgeable motorist seeking adventure and the 'real' Australian outback.
	www.allsydney.com /west/wiluna.htm (151 words)

	DIFFLOCK.com - Global Overland
		After driving thousands of kilometres to take this "shortcut" from the middle of Western Australia into the red centre of Australia, we arrived in the small township of Wiluna, the start of the route, to discover that the Gunbarrel Highway was closed.
		On their last attempt to drive the Gunbarrel, they’d only travelled 16km before they were bogged.
		The next day was clear and we continued bumping along the Gunbarrel, through bloom-filled desert, deep sand and past many newly formed lakes before we finally left the corrugations behind us at the tiny town of Warburton.
	www.difflock.com /global-overland/part2.shtml (1185 words)

	Yamaha Action
		Another pre daylight start saw the group arrive at Mt Beadell on the Gunbarrel Highway.
		West of Carnegie the Gunbarrel Highway is maintained and it was time to open the throttle and reduce the kilometres to Steep Point but as fate would have it the F 250 blew out a tyre costing time and daylight.
		A quick tyre change and it was on with the trip to catch the Raptors.
	www.yamaha-motor.co.nz /hot_news/atv_attempt_d11.asp (342 words)

	Article - Steamboat Springs Colorado
		Blazing up the "Gunbarrel Highway", as it’s called, Tom entertained us all with a magic trick.
		Since Gunbarrel is almost 100 miles long, flat, and as straight as a...well, you know.., it begs to be ridden at about *** miles per hour (figure it out for yourself, officer).
		highway 40 through Rabbit Ears and Muddy passes (more photo ops!), none of us are in a huge hurry to get back to Albuquerque.
	www.swbike.com /articles/steamboat (1535 words)

	The Gun Barrel \| Jackson Hole, Wyoming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Take Highway 26 south to the Jackson town square and take a right onto Broadway and head west 1.1 miles, you will see the Gun Barrel and the bugling elk in the Grand Teton Plaza on the left.
		Take Highway 26 north into Jackson and continue on Broadway through five stop lights.
		Take Highway 22 to the Junction with Broadway/Hwy 26 and turn left onto Broadway heading east toward Jackson town square.
	www.gunbarrel.com /location.shtml (128 words)

	Part 1 - Gunbarrel Highway @ ExplorOz
		Our lunch stop today in Dalwallinu on the Great Northern Highway was our first opportunity to put the food and utensil storage to the test.
		This final section of the Gunbarrell to the Heather Highway Junction (Mt Samuel) was full of wildflowers but quite washed out.
		At Jackie Junction we stopped for photos but there was no suitable camp clearing so we took the left turn to begin the abandoned section of the Gunbarrel Highway and to find a campsite.
	www.exploroz.com /Journal/EOFieldTrip/gunbarreldiary.asp (3848 words)

	Gunbarrel Highway - Travel guide Hotel reservation for holidays in Gunbarrel Highway -
		Gunbarrel Highway - Travel guide Hotel reservation for holidays in Gunbarrel Highway -
		Ooaj Travel Guide, tourism, hotel reservation, residence, plane, cheap pension for you holidays in gunbarrel highway
		Another 31 kilometers brings you to Everard Junction where the Gunbarrel and
	www.ooaj.com /travel/Gunbarrel_Highway.html (1610 words)

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