Ernest Giles road is named after the first explorer who crossed the western deserts twice and yet died penniless and unknown in 1897. He was the one who gave the Gibson Desert his name (after Alf Gibson, a young stockman who went missing during an expedition that very nearly claimed Giles' life).
This stretch of track is rather nice, with very red sand and nice desert oaks (the young ones look like hairy broomsticks, very different from their adult shape). The Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve is very unremarkable though.