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.
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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.
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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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