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The area surrounding the roadhouse is of high cultural significance to the Nyangumarta people, who hold native title over the area. It is only one of three fuel stations (the others being Pardoo and Roebuck roadhouses) in the 610 km between those two towns. [citation needed] Sandfire Roadhouse in 2003.
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 ...
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 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 ...
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]
In May 2018, Main Roads Western Australia, an agency of the Government of Western Australia, started work to upgrade and seal Cape Leveque Road between Broome Highway and Beagle Bay. [3] [4] This work was funded under the Northern Australia Roads Program, with $65.7 million from the state and federal governments, and was completed in late 2020. [5]
State Road 686 (SR 686) is an east–west route in Pinellas County, running from U.S. Route 19 Alternate (Alt. US 19) in Largo east to an intersection with SR 687 (4th Street) and SR 694 (Gandy Boulevard) in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The Dampier Peninsula is a peninsula located north of Broome and Roebuck Bay in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, named after the mariner and explorer William Dampier who visited it. It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean to the west and north, and King Sound to the east. The northernmost part of the peninsula is Cape Leveque.