Qualla: Gascoyne Junction https://qualla.com/gascoyne-junction-western-australia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/9/c/gascoyne-junction-western-australia-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Gascoyne Junction https://qualla.com/gascoyne-junction-western-australia Gascoyne Junction: Introduction https://qualla.com/gascoyne-junction-western-australia/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0. On Christmas Day in 1997, the thermometer at Gascoyne Junction climbed to 48.3 degrees Celsius, the hottest Christmas ever recorded anywhere in Australia. It is a fitting record for a town that sits in hot desert country at the meeting of two rivers, in a place so dry that the rivers are usually little more than beds of sand. And yet, every so often, those same rivers rise up and try to wash the town away.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/9/c/gascoyne-junction-western-australia-wp/qe9c-gascoyne-junction-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Gascoyne Junction: Two Rivers, One Town https://qualla.com/gascoyne-junction-western-australia/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0. Gascoyne Junction takes its name from exactly what it is: the point where the Lyons River joins the Gascoyne, inland from Carnarvon. The Gascoyne River was named in 1839 by the explorer Lieutenant George Grey, after his friend Captain J. Gascoyne of the Royal Navy. Settlement cam...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/9/c/gascoyne-junction-western-australia-wp/qe9c-gascoyne-junction-two-rivers-one-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Gascoyne Junction: The Town That Almost Wasn't Killili https://qualla.com/gascoyne-junction-western-australia/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0. The town nearly carried a different name entirely. When the Government finally moved to declare a townsite in 1912, it chose "Killili," from a local Aboriginal word for bullrush, after the Surveyor General asked for a "euphonious native name." The name never took. For decades loc...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/9/c/gascoyne-junction-western-australia-wp/qe9c-gascoyne-junction-the-town-that-almost-wasnt-killili.mp3 0:06 3 full Gascoyne Junction: When the River Returns https://qualla.com/gascoyne-junction-western-australia/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Gascoyne is an ephemeral river, dry far more often than it flows, which makes its floods all the more shocking when they arrive. In December 2010, days of torrential rain across the catchment, more than 250 millimetres in places within a single day, sent the river surging thr...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/9/c/gascoyne-junction-western-australia-wp/qe9c-gascoyne-junction-when-the-river-returns.mp3 0:06 4 full Gascoyne Junction: Schooling Across the Distance https://qualla.com/gascoyne-junction-western-australia/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0. Educating children in a place this isolated has always taken ingenuity. For generations, local students learned through the Carnarvon School of the Air, the famous outback institution that beamed lessons across hundreds of kilometres to children on remote stations. The district's...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/9/c/gascoyne-junction-western-australia-wp/qe9c-gascoyne-junction-schooling-across-the-distance.mp3 0:06 5 full Gascoyne Junction: Gateway to the Outback's Giants https://qualla.com/gascoyne-junction-western-australia/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0. For travellers, Gascoyne Junction is less a destination than a threshold. It is the gateway to Mount Augustus, often described as the largest rock in the world, and to the dramatic escarpments of Kennedy Range National Park, and the road through town carries those bound for the d...

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