Buntine Highway

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Buntine Highway
Australian Route 96.png
map
Outline map Buntine Highway
Basic data
Operator: NT Roads , Main Roads
Start of the street: N1 Victoria Highway
Willeroo ( NT )
( 15 ° 18 ′  S , 131 ° 34 ′  E )
End of street: R80 Duncan Road
Nicholson ( WA )
( 18 ° 3 ′  S , 128 ° 54 ′  E )
Overall length: 579 km

States :

Northern Territory , Western Australia

Buntine Memorial.JPG
Buntine Memorial at the junction of the Buntine Highway from the Victoria Highway
Course of the road
Locality Willeroo N1( Victoria Highway )
Locality Delamere
Locality Top Springs R80 ( Buchanan Highway )
flow Armstrong River
Locality Montejinni
flow Townsend Creek
Locality Camfield
Locality Victoria River
flow Camfield River
flow Victoria River
Locality Kalkarindji: Mount Sanford Road
Locality Inverway: Overgrown Road
Locality Nicholson R80( Duncan Road )

The Buntine Highway is a trunk road in the west of the Australian Northern Territory . It connects the Victoria Highway at Willeroo with Duncan Road in Nicholson in Western Australia .

Origin of name

It is named after Noel Lytton Buntine , a road train entrepreneur in the 1960s and in this respect a pioneer of overland transport in Northern Australia. The family business Buntine Roadtrains no longer exists, but a memorial stone that Mrs. Patty Buntine placed on October 19, 1996 to mark the opening of the highway commemorates it.

course

At Willeroo , 125 kilometers southwest of Katherine , the Buntine Highway branches off from the Victoria Highway. First of all, it runs south as a two-lane paved road. After 165 kilometers, he crosses the Buchanan Highway in Top Springs . After crossing the Armstrong Rivers , the Camfield Rivers and the Victoria Rivers , the next larger town, Kalkarindji (also called Wave Hill ), is reached after a further 170 kilometers . From here there is access to the Gregory National Park in the north . The Buntine Highway, unpaved in the further course, ends after about 250 kilometers in Nicholson in Western Australia. The next larger town, Halls Creek , is 160 kilometers away on Duncan Road .

The highest point on the highway is at 461  m , the lowest at 120  m .

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 96 and 98

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Australia Easy Read - Road and 4WD Atlas . Hema Maps, Brisbane 2007, ISBN 978-1-86500-395-5 .
  2. ↑ maps.bonzle.com - Buntine Highway . Retrieved April 19, 2012.