Jackie Junction is a remote location in
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
on the
Gunbarrel Highway
The Gunbarrel Highway is an isolated desert track in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. It consists of about of washaways, heavy corrugations, stone, sand and flood plains. The Gunbarrel Highway connects Victory D ...
. It was named by the road builder
Len Beadell
Leonard Beadell OAM BEM FIEMS (21 April 1923 – 12 May 1995) was a surveyor, road builder, bushman, artist and author, responsible for constructing over of roads and opening up isolated desert areas – some – of central Australia f ...
after his youngest daughter and is at the junction of the original Gunbarrel Highway and the road to
Warburton. It is north of Warburton.
History
In May 1958 during survey work to determine the course of the Gunbarrel Highway, Beadell travelled through virgin scrub from
Giles to Warburton, an existing Aboriginal mission station.
He selected the location approximately north of Warburton as the commencement point for the next section of the Gunbarrel Highway. Survey westward from Jackie Junction took place from 14–28 May 1958, a road from Jackie Junction to Warburton was built in late August 1958, and construction of the final section of Gunbarrel Highway began on 3 September 1958 towards
Carnegie Station. The road was completed on 15 November 1958.
Gallery
File:Jackie Junction signpost 0915.jpg, Signpost at Jackie Junction
File:Jackie Junction 0915.jpg, Detail of the plaque on the signpost
References
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Roads built by Len Beadell