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3 unusual facts about Mount Davies Road


Mount Davies Road

Len Beadell was given the task of selecting a team and constructing access roads from the test locality to the future weather station, named Giles after the explorer Ernest Giles who had explored that part of the remote inland.

The Mount Davies Road is a remote unsealed outback track which runs from Mount Davies (Pipalyatjara) in the far north-west corner of South Australia to Anne's Corner on the Anne Beadell Highway 397 kilometres to the south-east.

As a result of British atomic tests at Emu Field in 1953, a weather station was needed to the far north-west of the test sites, to determine when suitable weather conditions existed for future tests.



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