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Talawana Track
The Talawana Track is a remote unsealed track that runs between Windy Corner on the Gary Highway and the Marble Bar Road in Western Australia, a distance of 596 kilometres. The majority of it was built by Len Beadell and the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party in 1963, and was the final road they built.
==Reconnaissance==
The Gunbarrel Road Construction Party (GRCP) arrived at Callawa Station 22 July 1963, having just completed 1350 kilometres of the new Gary Junction Road from Liebig Bore in the Northern Territory. Beadell's Land Rover and most of the other vehicles made their way to Port Hedland for badly needed maintenance, prior to commencing their next task of building another track for the Woomera rocket range. Once the vehicles were serviced, they made their way to Marble Bar, where Beadell parted company with his crew, as they were returning along the Gary Junction Road to regrade it, while Beadell set off in a southerly direction to begin a 600 km reconnaissance for the new track.
He travelled via Nullagine, Ethel Creek Station, Billanooka (sic) and Walgun to the ruins of the abandoned Talawana homestead, where he arrived 2 August 1963. Beadell plunged east into the Gibson Desert spinifex, and crossed the remnants of the Rabbit-proof fence. He discovered a survey marker placed by Alfred Canning who had been there some 70 years prior while building the fence. A major obstacle which lay across the path was the McKay Range, which Beadell struggled to traverse. After he had found a way through, he came to an 80 metre long crystal clear water hole, and noticed fresh human footprints near the edge. Further on he saw a spiral of smoke rising above the spinifex, so he closed the gap towards the smoke, switched the engine off, and waited for a meeting with an unknown tribe which he knew would come. He was rewarded when two Aborigines made their presence known, while others kept their distance. Anthropologists were very interested in this discovery, and Beadell was able to take a small study group back to the spot at a later date.
Well 23 on the Canning Stock Route was his next objective, but he was unable to find it, though he knew he was close. To save time, he continued on to Karara Soak (sic) where he discovered the location of Well 24. This left him 200 kilometres to travel through featureless sand and spinifex before he suddenly arrived on the cleared path of the Gary Highway. It was 7 August when he settled down to wait for the GRCP to arrive from the north, and for the next five days, the wind was so strong that he was barely able to leave the shelter of his vehicle. This led to his naming of the future corner where he camped, "Windy Corner".〔
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