词条 | Neale Junction |
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| type = junction | jtype = Intersection | road_name = Neale Junction | city = Great Victoria Desert, {{convert|172|km|mi|abbr=on}} west of Ilkurlka | state = wa | image = Neale Junction - Len Beadell marker.jpg | caption = Neale Junction - Len Beadell marker | image_alt = | relief = 1 | coordinates_a = {{coord|28|18|9.95|S|125|49|1.77|E|type:landmark|display=inline}} | est = {{start date|1962|8|16|df=y}} | built_by = Gunbarrel Road Construction Party | maintained = | history = | roads = {{Plainlist|
}} | region = }}Neale Junction is an isolated location in the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia, where the Anne Beadell and Connie Sue Highways intersect.[1] It is {{convert|172|km|mi|abbr=on}} west of Ilkurlka.[2] Neale Junction was named after Commander Frank Neale, who flew a Percival Gull through the area during the Mackay Aerial Reconnaissance Survey Expedition to Western and South Australia in 1935.[3][4] It has a Len Beadell marker and is indicated as suitable for camping on some maps. Neale Junction is also a location of a large nature reserve that sits north west of the even larger Great Victoria Desert Nature Reserve.[5] The junction visitors book was deposited in Battye Library in 2002.[6] See also{{portal-inline|Australian Roads}}
References1. ^{{cite map |title=Australia’s Great Desert Tracks SW Sheet|last=Hema |first=Maps|year=2005 |publisher=Hema Maps|location=Eight Mile Plains Queensland|isbn=1-86500-161-9}} 2. ^Battye Library, MN 2082, Neale Junction, ACC 5853A. Neale Junction is the crossroads of the Rawlinna-Warburton road and the road from Laverton to South Australia. 3. ^Notes from Battye Library record: - Named after Commander R.F.C. Neale, the pilot who flew the Mackay Aerial Reconnaissance Survey Expedition in 1935, the name was approved on 17 September 1963 4. ^Bennett, Harry T. (ca. 1937) Donald MacKay aerial reconnaissance survey expedition [cartographic material] : Northern Territory, South and Western Australia/ compiled from data by Commander Harry T. Bennett and Capt. F. Neale. held in State Reference Library of Western Australia roll 29 5. ^(2008) In the tracks of Len Beadell : plants and animals of Neale Junction Nature Reserve, 28 September - 11 October 2008 : expedition briefing / Department of Environment and Conservation in association with University of Western Australia. Perth, W.A.: Dept. of Environment and Conservation, 2008. 6. ^Completed visitors book ACC - 5853A/1 17 April 1901 to 1 July 2002 was retrieved from the visitors box at the Junction by Ian Murray of Explorer Tours in 2002. External links
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