Anne Beadell Highway
Australia · Oceania
關於Anne Beadell Highway
The Anne Beadell Highway is a dirt track running from the underground town of Coober Pedy in South Australia to Laverton in Western Australia. It was named by surveyor Len Beadell after his wife. The road runs approximately 400 km north of the Eyre Highway through the Great Victoria Desert and is the only direct link from Coober Pedy to Western Australia. The highway is approximately 1,340 km (830 mi) long and runs through the Goldfields–Esperance region in Western Australia and the Outback in South Australia.
Anne Beadell Highway旅遊指南
城市概覽
The Anne Beadell Highway is one of the so-called Bomb Roads. Len Beadell laid the road runway in the desert areas straddling the Western/South Australian border with the Gunbarrel Construction Party in the 1950s and 1960s. They served to develop the areas for building an infrastructure for nuclear weapons tests in the Woomera area but today it is just a dirt track only for the adventurous.
如何抵達
Coober Pedy can be reached from the north and south via the A87 Stuart Highway, from the east from William Creek via William Creek and from Oodnadatta via the Kempe Road. It is also possible to travel by the Ghan (though the train stops about 40 km west of the city) or plane from Adelaide. Coober Pedy has all the facilities needed to prepare for crossing the Great Victoria Desert - service stations, supermarkets, doctors, pharmacies and two rental car companies. Coober Pedy has a population of approximately 3500 and is often referred to as the opal capital of Australia. What's mostly known in Coober Pedy is the underground churches, mines and dwellings. The stay should be used to visit an opal mine; recommended are Tom's Working Opal Mine (German owner) and the Old Timers Mine. It is also possible to spend the night underground.
順遊推薦
Laverton is a small outback town in Western Australia on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert. After 1350 km of mostly bad tracks, driving on asphalt feels like gliding on calm water. Laverton has service stations, a hotel and motel, and a campground. A supermarket is also available. There is a small hospital for medical emergencies. From Laverton, two roads lead in different directions: before reaching the city, the Great Central Road turns right, which leads via Warburton (565 km) and Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park (1167 km) to the Red Centre and Alice Springs. At the western end of the village, the paved Laverton-Leonora Road leads to Leonora (125 km) and the Goldfields Highway via Menzies (230 km) to Kalgoorlie (362 km).
城市概覽改寫自 Wikipedia，旅遊指南來自Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。照片來自 Wikimedia Commons.