Giles Weather Station Museum
Giles Weather Station Museum is a museum in Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku, Western Australia. Giles Weather Station Museum is situated nearby to Blue Streak Rocket, as well as near Len Beadell Gunbarrell Road Crew Grader.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Giles Weather Station and Giles Airport.
Giles Weather Station
Monitoring station
Photo: Summerdrought, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Giles Weather Station is located in the locality of Warakurna, Western Australia near the Northern Territory border, about 750 kilometres west-south-west of Alice Springs and 330 kilometres west of Uluru. Giles Weather Station is situated 110 metres southwest of Giles Weather Station Museum.
Giles Airport
Aerodrome
Giles Airport services the Warakurna Community and the Giles Weather Station in eastern Western Australia. The airstrip was built during April and May 1956 by a team led by Len Beadell as part of establishing the weather station for the British nuclear tests at Maralinga and the Woomera Test Range.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Warakurna.
Warakurna
Village
Warakurna is a large Aboriginal community, located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and is situated on the Great Central Road. Warakurna is situated 4 km northwest of Giles Weather Station Museum.
Giles Weather Station Museum
- Type: Museum
- Postal code: 0872
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-25.03334° or 25° 2′ southLongitude
128.30345° or 128° 18′ 12″ eastOpen location code
5Q6CX883+M9OpenStreetMap ID
node 11063167706OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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Notable Places Nearby
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