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	Too Long In The Bush
		Len Beadell was the perfect choice for the task of selecting and preparing the location for the weapons testing trials.
		Len Beadell's team had to contend with flat tyres and broken gearboxes as well as all the natural difficulties of the outback country of seemingly never-ending sandhills and limitless spinifex plains, in searing heat, bitter cold and violent wind storms.
		Len Beadell's experiences as he explored and surveyed Australia's vast Outback were the source of hundreds of fascinating stories which have all contributed to the colourful fabric which goes to make up the Australian character.
	www.beadell.com.au /lb_books.htm (802 words)

	A Tribute to Lenny
		Len Beadell, who has been called the last of the true Australian explorers, was born on a farm at West Pennant Hills, NSW, in 1923.
		Len Beadell tells with wimsical humor, the story of the bomb test from the time he was chosen to help prepare the location for the detonation.
		Len Beadell's descriptions of the countryside, the adventures the team experienced, and the Australian bush characters they encountered are by turns illuminating and hilarious.
	www.home.aone.net.au /wooly/beadell (1069 words)

	Len Beadell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Working as a surveyor in the (additional info and facts about British Army) British Army (Army Survey Corps), he was asked by the government to build a road across the interior of Australia in 1947 as part of the search for a suitable site for weapons testing.
		However, all of Len's original roads still exist, and are popular with hardcore (additional info and facts about four wheel drive) four wheel drive enthusiasts, though they are difficult going and almost all of them lie in aboriginal lands and require travel permits, as well as a great deal of preparation.
		Len Beadell was awarded the (additional info and facts about British Empire Medal) British Empire Medal in 1958 for his work constructing the Gunbarrel Highway.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/len_beadell.htm (534 words)

	A Tribute to Len Beadell
		Len Beadell was to change the map as the military forces became suddenly interested in that vast area.
		Len Beadell was chosen again for the task, recommended by his vast bush experience and reliability.
		Len's family stayed for five months with him till the future roads had been defined and the area was explored west to Lake Yeo.
	www.landroverclub.net /Club/HTML/Beadell.htm (2354 words)

	Len Beadell
		At left, Len Beadell standing on the right and other members of the survey team next to the first peg driven to mark the position of Woomera's airstrip.
		Len Beadell wrote six best-selling books about his experiences in the Australian Outback, as well as his family - wife Anne and children Connie-Sue, Gary and Jackie - all of whom have geographical features named for them.
		Len Beadell died on May 12, 1995, and his ashes were placed at the site of the original survey peg to mark the centre line of the range.
	homepage.powerup.com.au /~woomera/beadell.htm (637 words)

	Len Beadell:
		Len was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1958 for his work in building the famous Gunbarrel Highway, which stretches 1,600 kilometres across Central Australia.
		LEN BEADELL: When I was coming through this country, I occasionally met up with little families of Aborigines who'd never seen a white man before or, if at all, never seen a whitefella.
		Len Beadell, who certainly left his mark on this place - a 6,000k-long mark, in fact - and in the process got away with naming an outback track after his wife and kids.
	www.abc.net.au /cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/history/Transcripts/s1136644.htm (921 words)

	Len Beadell - TheBestLinks.com - Australia, Atomic bomb, British Army, Latitude, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Len Beadell - TheBestLinks.com - Australia, Atomic bomb, British Army, Latitude,...
		Len Beadell, Australia, Atomic bomb, British Army, Latitude, Longitude, Land...
		The road was built using initial reconnaissance and surveying by Len (often working alone) by pushing through raw scrub with a Land Rover, using astrofixes for latitude and longitude measurements.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Len_Beadell.html (645 words)

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		Len Beadell can lay claim to being the last of the great explorers of Australia: in the 1950's and 60's he undertook solo surveys which led to the building of roads through the most inaccessible tracts of the outback.
		For Len Beadell's team, that meant a journey of 800 kilometres at three kilometres an hour - the longest towing operation ever in the hist...
		An account of Australia's first century of exploration, concentrating not so much on wherethe explorers went as how they went, how they learned, or failed to learn from experience, and how they overcame their fear of the unknown and came to be at home in one of the planet's most hostile environments...
	www.themapshop.com.au /site/index.cfm?module=STORETIGER&bit=products&category_code=1842 (1083 words)

	AudioBooks
		Blast the Bush is the second of Len Beadell's best selling series of books where the story of the frantic and harried efforts of the people who worked on the British Atomic Testing Project, code named "X 200", is told.
		This is the audio version of Len Beadell's first and most widely acclaimed book, Too Long in the Bush.
		Blast the Bush is the second of Len Beadell's best selling series of books where the story of the frantic and harried efforts of the people who worked on the British Atomic Testing Project.
	www.mapsandbooks.com.au /Shop/MAB/DisplayItems.asp?CategoryID=15&PN=1 (2204 words)

	Shopping Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Too Long in the Bush; Len Beadell - Straight as a gun barrel, they bulldozed their way through saltbush, sand dunes, desert and salt lakes to make Australia's most incredible road - The Gunbarrel Highway.
		Still in the Bush; Len Beadell - The journey undertaken by Len Beadell to start a Rocket Range in the middle of the Australian Outback.
		Welcome to the Claypan; Len Beadell - Printed by the Weapons Research Establishment in 1953 as a guide for the English scientists who were to work on the atomic test site at Emu Claypan.
	www.woomerasa.com.au /page.cfm/BB02C3B9-7C7E-47A3-A1D9-58AAB65C4B53 (743 words)

	Len Beadell's Books
		Len Beadell (1923-1995) and a small team built a network of outback "highways" for the atomic-bomb testing programme and for the Woomera rocket range during the late 1950's and the 1960s.
		Len Beadell, Blast The Bush, Rigby Ltd. library of Congress #66-24167, 1st pub' 1967.
		Len Beadell, Too Long in the Bush - Talking Book, read by Adelaide actor Mike Scheid, Len Beadell's "Too Long in the Bush" has now been released in two cassette tapes with a total duration of three hours.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /ecars/Books/Beadell.html (456 words)

	Books - Explorers @ ExplorOz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For the first time Len's life has been chronicled, from the early influences which spawned his love of the outback to the years as tour guide and unsurpassable bush camp yarn spinner.
		A compilation of Len Beadell's series of six books on his road building years.
		Len Beadell's book is an excellent insight into the history of the "outback highways".
	203.147.170.134 /Shop/DisplayItems.asp?CategoryID=2&ClassID=54 (1242 words)

	(GC87A8) Aussie Explorers by The Rats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Len has been described as "The Last Australian Explorer" because of his lifetime of work surveying, mapping and creating access to a vast portion of the Australian Outback.
		As a surveyor Len was responsible for the initial town survey and launch sites and in the years to follow he led a gang of roadmakers to create over 6,500 kilometres of access roads for scientific observers of various weapons tests.
		During these years he and his workmates were subject to the extremes of the Australian bush coping with the heat, cold, dust storms, rain, floods and flies and all the time his navigation, both solar and stellar, was crucial to their own safety and the success of the rocket range.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC87A8 (825 words)

	Big Red Tour: The Great Central Road & The Gunbarrel Highway
		It was originally constructed by the last outback pioneer Len Beadell and his Gunbarrel crew in 1958.
		Len Beadells grader stands in a cage at the station.
		Len Beadell Plaques: The Gunbarrell Crew set up plaques made out of sardine tins on trees to mark their progress with road.
	www.bigredtour.net /gunbarrel.html (595 words)

	Len Beadell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Len Beadell was born at West Pennant Hills, N.S.W. in 1923, Len Beadell moved to Salisbury to work for the Government after World War II, and was responsible for surveying and selecting sites for:
		Len achieved national recognition for his work in developing over 6,000 kilometres of roads through 2.5 million square kilometres of some of Australia's harshest deserts.
		The central Land Council will supply the application forms needed In 1959 Len Beadell received the British Empire Medal for his roadbuilding.
	www.beadell.com (1885 words)

	Memories of Woomera - 30b
		The absolute biggest event ever at school was the arrival of Len Beadell.
		Len was my own personal hero, although you could never comprehend what he was doing, but there was some understanding filtering to kids at our level.
		I was very lucky to travel and work all tracks established by Len in his range working life when I was employed by National Mapping from 1964-1969 as a field hand.
	homepage.powerup.com.au /~woomera/memor30b.htm (709 words)

	End of an Era (Len Beadell)
		As usual, it was hard work and rollicking adventure for the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party as they surveyed and built their last three highways across the deserts of Central Australia.
		On one foward reconnaissance Beadell discovered a small group of Aborigines who had never before seen a white person and alos rediscovered two wells on the Canning Stock Route.
		These and many other adventures of the outback are retold in Beadell's own lively and entertaining style.
	www.mapsdownunder.com.au /cgi-bin/mapshop/MM-118850.html?mv_tmp_session=1&explode=1 (216 words)

	A Lifetime in the Bush
		Mark became hooked on his subject after attending one his lectures in 1988 and then participating in a four wheel drive safari to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the completion of the Gunbarrel Highway.
		In fact everyone who ever met Len Beadell seems to have become hooked, evidenced by the number of fond reminiscences reproduced in the book.
		This is a biography so it does not reproduce the contents of the books for which Len Beadell himself is so well known.
	www.4wdonline.com /Books/BeadellBiog.html (372 words)

	Tread Lightly! Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The possibility of a major 4WD Track and Road network is now available and the ideal region to start such a project is Len Beadell's major road and track network.
		A few days before Len passed away we spoke about the future preservation of his road network and I promised that I would endeavour and do my best to ensure that current and future generations would be able to access the network and that the roads be classified and maintained.
		This concept is to follow the existing routes and provide significant locations, discovery points, cultural points of interest, tracks for access and many other areas of interest to encourage environmental use of the Roads.
	www.treadlightlyaustralia.com.au /projects/restoration/lenbeadell.htm (758 words)

	Len Beadell's Tracks
		Len Beadell was probably our last great explorer, spending months at a time in areas of Australia that a white man had never stepped before.
		He and his Gunbarrel Construction party established a network of roads that opened up the centre of Australia to all types of ventures, from mining to pastoralism and eventually tourism.
		They were built as part of the atomic research conducted by the British Government in the 1960’s and consumed many years of Len’s life which he eventually wrote about in a series of humorous books.
	www.outbacktagalong.com.au /beadell.html (399 words)

	Great Figure 8 (6/98)
		Stopping at Tallaringa Well, we encounted one of Len Beadell's survey markers, at the base a small glass jar kept names of who had past before, so we added our names.
		A camel is up ahead, confronting us for being on the track, realising there were to many of us, he ran for the next 2km, we stopped for lunch to let him catch his breath.
		Beadell and the Connie Sue Hwy's, we took lunch, photo's and all signed the visitor's book.
	www.mitsu4wdclubqld.org /trips/trip_reports/trip_archives/1998/trip9806.htm (1476 words)

	Australia's Outback - The Gunbarrel Highway
		Click on Len Beadell's map for a large map by the maker of the Gunbarrel.
		The history of the Gunbarrel construction is also described in the Len Beadell section.
		When you leave the range behind you, among the sandhills, you're in the area where Gibson was lost and a hundred years later even Len Beadell almost died of thirst, hadn't his expert knowledge led him to a well hidden waterhole.
	www.landroverclub.net /Club/HTML/Australia_Gunbarrel.htm (2851 words)

	WA4WDA mtbdl trip report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We left there at 4.30 to head for Camp Beadell as it was only about 50 km, but we didn’t know that the 50k was going to take us 2 hours to complete, as it wasn’t just the corrigations now, but also driving into a sunset through dust.
		The new memorial has been placed at the base of Mt Beadell as the first one was erected on top of the mount and was blown off in a wind storm.
		She told us the history of the roads that Len built and of his wish for them to be looked after, when he was gone.
	www.wa4wda.com.au /Events/mtbdl_trip_report/mtbdl_trip_report.htm (714 words)

	Bush Bashers (Len Beadell)
		Working in all weathers, the Bush Bashers of Len Beadell's 'Gunbarrel Road Construction Party' built a network of roads stretching 6500 kilometres across almost unkown wilderness in Central Australia.
		In this book, Len Beadell tells the story of his second road across Australia which was driven 1600 kilometres from east to west, from South Australia to West Australia through the heart of the Great Victoria Desert.
		In his own inimitable style, Len Beadell tells the story with an eye for the human and humorous details that make a memorable enterprise into a lovely and readable tale.
	www.mapsdownunder.com.au /cgi-bin/mapshop/MM-118849.html (206 words)

	Connie Sue Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though officially named the Rawlinna-Warburton Road, it is better known as the Connie Sue, after the daughter of Len Beadell, a famous 20th-century surveyor and bushman.
		This road, like many Len Beadell built, is a "highway" in name only.
		It is remote and does not carry regular traffic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Connie_Sue_Highway (173 words)

	Len Beadell Story On George Negus @ ExplorOz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For those with an interest, there is to be a story on Len Beadell on the George Negus Tonight program on the ABC next Monday (21 June) at 6.30pm.
		Link to Negus site The publicity blurb says: "Len Beadell Len has been referred to as the “last of the true Australian explorers”.
		Len was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1958 for his work in building the famous Gunbarrel Highway, which stretches 1,600 kilometres across Central Australia." Jack
	www.exploroz.com /Forum/Archive/2004_3/13871.asp (383 words)

	OutBack - Legends Of The Outback
		Pushing relentlessly through some of the most inhospitable country in Australia, Len Beadell carved tracks across formerly inaccessible desert regions, creating the first direct road connection between Alice Springs and Perth.
		He was an extremely skilful cartoonist, a humorist and an engaging public speaker and author who was able to bring the sense and feeling of this unique area to audiences and readers from one end of the country to the other.
		Len Beadell has been dubbed ‘The Last True Australian Explorer’, which is probably a reasonable assessment, as he is a contemporary figure.
	www.outbackmag.com.au /home.asp?pageid=EBA73141ABF57D53&articleid=C669A479FBA823A5 (369 words)

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