Watertanks in the Australian Outback

Port Augusta - Darwin:

• 120km South of Pimba. At rest area where railway crosses road.
• 102km North of Port Augusta 3^rd parking bay on left.
• Pimba Roadhouse
• 42km North of Pimba. Parking bay on left.
• Glendambo Roadhouse
• 83km North of Gendambo. Parking bay with emergency telephone.
• 160km North of Gendambo. Parking bay with emergency telephone
• Coober Pedy
• 80 km North of Coober Pedy. Parking bay with emergency telephone
• 112km North of Coober Pedy. Parking bay with emergency telephone
• Cadney Park Roadhouse
• 120km North of Marla. Tank in rest area.
• SA/NT border. Tank in rest area.
• Kulgera Roadhouse
• Erldunda Roadhouse
• 35km North of Erldunda. Tank in rest area.
• 74km North of Erldunda. Tank in rest area by Finke river.
• Stuarts Well Roadhouse
• Alice Springs
• Conners Well rest area. 93km north of Alice Springs.
• Aileron Roadhouse
• 13km north of Aileron. Tank in rest area.
• Ti Tree Roadhouse
• Barrow Creek Roadhouse. Very salty borewater, ask at bar for drinking water. I didn’t get some. At least I got water from tourists in a truck.
• Wycliff Well roadhouse
• Wauchope roadhouse. Fillup here if camping at Devils Marbles, a great place to camp but no water.
• 90km South of Tennant Creek. Tank at Bonney Well rest area.
• 30km South of Tennant Creek. Tank in rest area.
• Tennant Creek
• 72km North of Tennant Creek. Tank in rest area.
• Renner Springs roadhouse
• Elliot
• 25km North of Elliot. Tank in rest area.
• Dunmarra
• 29km North of Dunmarra. Tank in rest area.
• Daly Waters Junction
• Larrimah
• 40km North of Larrimah. Tank in rest area.
• Mataranka
• 58km North of Mataranka. Tank in rest area.
• Katherine
• 42km North of Katherine. Tank in rest area.
• This is last tank before Darwin but lots of small towns or stores where you can get water.

Erldunda - Ayres Rock

• Mt Ebenezer roadhouse. 56km west of Erldunda
• 45km West of Mt.Ebenezer. Tank in rest area.
• 129km West of Erldunda, Tank in rest area.
• 135km West of Erldunda. Tank in rest area.
• Curtain Springs 103km from Mt.Ebenezer. Free camping but very dirty and dusty.
• Water in tank by Ayres Rock/ulgas lookout 57km West of Curtain Springs.

Source: From a New Zealand cycling couple. I checked the list from Three Ways to Port Augusta. Especially between Alice Springs and Ayers Rock I had lots of empty tanks. Be aware! Don’t trust the tanks. On my way back from the rock they started to fill up them. In an emergency case it would be still easy to stop some tourist with the big tanks.

Mt.Isa - Three Ways

• Mt.Isa
• Camooweal
• Avon Downs 70km West of Camooweal. Tank in rest area. Pulice Station.
• Soudan 51km West of Avon. Privat Ranch. No water!. Telefon.
• 15km West of Soudan. Dry bore in rest area. No water!.
• 47km West of Soudan. Wonarah Shop. Small Shop. Toilets, Drinks, Water. They let cyclists camp over night.
• 41km East of Barkly Roadhouse. Tank in rest area.
• Barkly Roadhouse
• 55km West of Barkly. Tank in rest area (Bore).
• 70km East of Three Ways. Tank in rest area.
• Three Ways Roadhouse

Information from Mt.Isa to Port Augusta contrulled or written down at March 1997 from Urs Arnuld (Lucerne/Switzerland).

From Brisbane to Mt.Isa there are no tanks but lots of smaller places to fill up water. But especially between Longreach and Cloncurry it’s pretty empty.