Neale Junction Explained

Type:	junction
Jtype:	Intersection
Road Name:	Neale Junction
City:	Great Victoria Desert, 172km (107miles) west of Ilkurlka
State:	wa
Relief:	1
Coordinates A:	-28.3028°N 125.8172°W
Built By:	Gunbarrel Road Construction Party

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 172km (107miles) 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 the J S Battye Library in 2002.^[6]

See also

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in Western Australia

External links

• Connie Sue Highway (ExplorOz)

Notes and References

1. Australia's Great Desert Tracks SW Sheet. Hema . Maps. 2005 . Hema Maps. Eight Mile Plains Queensland. 1-86500-161-9.
2. [Battye Library]
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.