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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, crime and other emergencies.〔e.g., this (report of a missing person )〕 North-western roadhouses are found next to river crossings or close to station homesteads. In the event of flooding of the North West Coastal Highway, they are locations where vehicles including road trains can be safely encamped and accounted for when a sudden deluge may make the road impassable.〔(Record breaking deluge floods Carnarvon ) ABC News 17 December 2010〕 On the Nullarbor or Eyre Highway, places designated as roadhouses are in some cases also vested as localities and, in some cases, known as ''roadhouse communities''. The following list is of roadhouses that exist in isolation, having little or no adjacent community infrastructure. It does not include roadhouses which are in country towns. == Roadhouses== * Auski (Munjina) * Balladonia * Caiguna * Cue * Cocklebiddy * Doon Doon 〔''Doon Doon Roadhouse construction underway''. Woolah people will call the store "Djuwarlu" and will sell crafts and supplies and hope to run tours. Kimberley echo, 9 Nov. 2000, p.9〕 * Eucla * Fortescue River () * Kumarina Roadhouse * Madura * Minilya * Mount Barnett 〔Johnson, Genine. (2001) ''Roadhouse reopens after community rift''. A rift in the Kupungarri Aboriginal community has left the community deserted for 6 months, and led to the closure of the roadhouse and Manning Gorge. Broome advertiser, 23 May 2001, p.1,2,〕 * Mundrabilla * Murchison 〔Laud, Peter (1998) ''Rough and ready''. Life at the Roadhouse features one of WAs oddest golfcourses. Sunday times (Perth, W.A.), 22 August 1998, Sunday Section, p.7〕 * Nanutarra 〔Rovis-Hermann, Tom.(1997) ''Roadhouse jewels of the north''. (Roadhouse owners talk about their lives and work - including Nanutarra, Overlander and Billabong road houses).Sunday times (Perth, W.A.), 6 July 1997, Sunday Section, p. 3〕 * North Dandalup * Overlander * Pardoo 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of roadhouses in Western Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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