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General highways map of Western Australia Western Australia has extensive long-distance highways with few localities along them. Privately owned general stores known as roadhouses have been established at strategic points as an important utility for petrol, food, accommodation, emergency facilities and general supplies. They are also useful reference points in any response to accidents, floods ...
Thomas, Athol, (1987) Biography on the owner of the Sandfire roadhouse in 1987 - Eddie Norton, West Australian, 10 March 1987, p. 57 This article about a location in Western Australia is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
National Highways and Routes in Western Australia Highways in south-west Western Australia Road routes in Perth. Road routes in Western Australia assist drivers navigating roads in urban, rural, and scenic areas of the state. [1]
The Sandfire Roadhouse is 1,900 kilometres (1,200 mi) north of Perth in Western Australia. It is on the Great Northern Highway between Port Hedland and Broome, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the coast. Bogucki left the roadhouse on 11 July 1999. He intended to ride his bike across the Great Sandy Desert to Fitzroy Crossing. Whilst police called off ...
A range of projects were carried out across the length of the highway between 1996 and 2006. By 1998, a 157-kilometre (98 mi) section between the Sandfire Roadhouse and Victoria Highway had been improved at a cost of $1.1 million, and another 42 kilometres (26 mi) north of Meekatharra was improved for $12 million in 1999.
The station is located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Broome on a rich marine floodplain. It occupies an area of 2,760 square kilometres (1,066 sq mi) and is able to support around 20,000 head of cattle. [2] The property is a mixture of floodplains and sandy pindan country. [3]
A roadhouse on China National Highway 209 in Gaoqiao Township, Xingshan County, Hubei.It appears to be used as a rest stop for long-distance buses. A roadhouse (Australia and the United States) or stopping house (Canada) is a small mixed-use premises typically built on or near a major road in a sparsely populated area or an isolated desert region that serves passing travellers, providing food ...
In 1950, Broome was the setting for Arthur Upfield's novel The Widows of Broome, his 12th novel featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ("Bony"). Gantheaume Point, circa 1910. Dinosaur footprints dated as Early Cretaceous in age (approximately 130 million years ago) were discovered 30 m (98 ft) out to sea at Gantheaume Point in the 1960s.