Tjukayirla Roadhouse (commonly pronounced "Chook-a–year-la") is a remote roadhouse on the

Great Central Road The Great Central Road is a mostly unsealed Australian Australian outback, outback highway that runs from Laverton, Western Australia to Yulara, Northern Territory (near Uluru, Uluru / Ayers Rock). It passes through a number of small communitie ...

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 ...

. It is located in the

Shire of Laverton The Shire of Laverton is a local government area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, about northeast of the city of Kalgoorlie and about east-northeast of the state capital, Perth. The Shire covers an area of , and its s ...

and operated by the

Papulankutja Papulankutja (also referred to as Blackstone) is a large Aboriginal community located in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku. History The community exists on the traditional lands of ...

(Blackstone) Community, one of the founding members of the

Ngaanyatjarra Council The Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku is a remote local government area in Western Australia near the Northern Territory/South Australian border. It is from Perth. It was formed on 1 July 1993 following a report of the Local Government Boundaries Commi ...

. The roadhouse offers various styles of accommodation, including twin-share rooms, self-contatined units, and a powered

campground A campsite, also known as a campground or camping pitch, is a place used for camping, overnight stay in an outdoor area. In British English, a ''campsite'' is an area, usually divided into a number of pitches, where people can camp overnight u ...

with facilities for caravans and tents. The name of the roadhouse derives from the Tjukayirla

rockhole A panhole is a depression or basin eroded into flat or gently sloping cohesive rock.Twidale, C.R., and Bourne, J.A., 2018''Rock basins (gnammas) revisited. ''Géomorphologie: Relief, Processus, Environnement, Articles sous presse, Varia, mis en l ...

s, which are located at the southwest end of the campground. Nearby attractions include the marker erected by surveyors Harry L. Paine and Hugh C. Barclay in 1931 on their expedition to the

Warburton Ranges Warburton or Warburton Ranges is an Aboriginal Australian community in Western Australia, just to the south of the Gibson Desert and located on the Great Central Road (part of the Outback Way) and Gunbarrel Highway. At the , Warburton had a pop ...

, known as the Paine & Barclay Survey Marker. The closest rockhole to the marker is the Winduldarra Rockhole. The nearest fuel available is to the west at Cosmo Newbery. The nearest fuel to the east is at Warburton, away.

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