Alpine Way
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Kosciuszko Road Barry Way Jindabyne ( NSW ) ( 36 ° 25 ′ S , 148 ° 36 ′ E ) |
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 Murray Valley HighwayTooma Road northwest of Khancoban ( NSW ) ( 36 ° 10 ′ S , 148 ° 3 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 126 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Alpine Way is a main road in the southeast of the Australian state of New South Wales . It connects Kosciuszko Road and Barry Way in Jindabyne with the Murray Valley Highway and Tooma Road northwest of Khancoban .
history
The Alpine Way was created around 1950 as part of the approach to the Snowy Mountains system . However, it was not finished asphalted until the 1990s.
course
The road branches off from Kosciuszko Road to west-southwest in Jindabyne and enters Kosciuszko National Park after about 15 km . Along the south bank of the Thredbo River and through the winter sports resort Thredbo, it moves to the ridge of the Great Dividing Range , which it reaches at the Dead Horse Gap . After overcoming the pass, it leads another 10 km to the west-southwest to the upper reaches of the Murray River on the border to Victoria at the settlement of Tom Groggin .
The Alpine Way does not cross the river, but turns sharply north and continues through the national park to Geehi , where it crosses the Swampy Plain River . From Geehi he continues his way to Khancoban and turns there to the northwest. About 5 km northwest of this settlement it meets the `` Tooma Road '' coming from the northeast and ends at the eastern end of the Murray Valley Highway (R16), not far from the border with Victoria.
The two-lane road is very curvy and offers great views of the highest mountains in Australia, the most famous ski areas on the continent and the Murray Gorge .
Web links
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 34
