{{Short description|Road junction in Western Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox Australian road | type = junction | jtype = T-Junction | road_name = Jackie Junction | city = Gibson Desert, {{convert|69|km|mi|abbr=on}} north of Warburton | state = wa | image = Jackie Junction map 0316.svg | caption = Jackie Junction location map | est = {{start date|1958|8|16|df=y}} | built_by = Gunbarrel Road Construction Party | maintained = | history = | roads = {{Plainlist| * Gunbarrel Highway * Giles to Warburton road }} | region = }} {{coord|25|42|27|S|126|39|47|E|type:landmark_region:AU|name=Jackie Junction|display=title}} '''Jackie Junction''' is a remote location in Western Australia on the Gunbarrel Highway. It was named by the road builder Len Beadell after his youngest daughter and is at the junction of the original Gunbarrel Highway and the road to Warburton. It is {{convert|69|km}} north of Warburton.<ref>{{cite map |title=Australia Road and 4WD Atlas|last=Hema |first=Maps|year=2007 |publisher=Hema Maps|location=Eight Mile Plains Queensland|isbn=978-1-86500-456-3|pages=90}}</ref>
==History== In May 1958 during survey work to determine the course of the Gunbarrel Highway, Beadell travelled through virgin scrub from Giles to Warburton, an existing Aboriginal mission station.<ref>{{cite book |title=Len Beadell's Legacy |last=Bayly |first=Ian |author-link= |year=2009 |publisher=Bas Publishing |location=Seaford Vic |isbn=9781921496028 |page=59}}</ref> He selected the location approximately {{convert|65|km}} north of Warburton as the commencement point for the next section of the Gunbarrel Highway. Survey westward from Jackie Junction took place from 14–28 May 1958, a road from Jackie Junction to Warburton was built in late August 1958, and construction of the final section of Gunbarrel Highway began on 3 September 1958 towards Carnegie Station. The road was completed on 15 November 1958.<ref name=ms1998>{{cite book |title=A Lifetime in the Bush:The biography of Len Beadell |last=Shephard |first=Mark |year=1998 |publisher=Corkwood Press |location=Adelaide |isbn=1876247053 |page=234 }}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery widths="240px" heights="180px"> File:Jackie Junction signpost 0915.jpg|Signpost at Jackie Junction File:Jackie Junction 0915.jpg|Detail of the plaque on the signpost </gallery>
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Category:Roads built by Len Beadell