Burke Developmental Road

Burke Developmental Road
Basic data
Operator:	Dept. of Transport and Main Roads
Start of the street:	Barkly Highway / Landsborough Highway Flinders Highway Cloncurry ( QLD ) ( 20 ° 42 ′  S , 140 ° 29 ′  E )
End of street:	Mareeba Dimbulah Road Dimbulah ( QLD ) ( 17 ° 9 ′  S , 145 ° 7 ′  E )
Overall length:	1132 km
States :	Queensland
Beginning of the unpaved part of the road east of Karumba

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Burke Developmental Road is a 1132 kilometer long trunk road in the north of the Australian state of Queensland . It opens up the area on the southeast coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria with the east coast near Cairns and with the interior further south. It connects the Barkly Highway and the Flinders Highway near Cloncurry with the Savannah Way near Normanton , then continues northeast to the Mitchell River and accompanies it upstream. At Dimbulah , the Burke Developmental Road merges into Mareeba Dimbulah Road , which overcomes the last 46 kilometers to Mareeba .

The highest point on the highway is at 645 m, the lowest at 2 m.

course

Cloncurry - Normanton

In the western suburbs of Cloncurry, Burke Developmental Road branches off northwards from the Barkly Highway (A2) and Flinders Highway (A6). Between the Leichhardt River , Alexandra River and Cloncurry River , it leads through grasslands to the north-northwest and crosses the Wills Developmental Road . From this junction it continues its path to the north-northeast and shortly before Normanton takes the Gulf Developmental Road from the east and the Great Top Road from the west. Normanton reaches the paved road, numbered D83, after 389 kilometers.

Normanton - Dimbulah

Normanton leaves the Burke Developmental Road to the northeast as State Road 27. After only 30 kilometers, it takes the connection to Karumba on the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria as the most important secondary road from the west . Soon after, it turns into a dirt road and crosses a large number of important rivers to the Gulf of Carpentaria on its way to Dunbar on the Mitchell River. One of these rivers is the Gilbert River . The bridge over this river was named after two local Aboriginal chiefs , Lily and Jubilee Slattery .

From Dunbar the road follows the Mitchell River east-southeast upstream to Wrotham Park . There it leaves the river and crosses its headwaters in a southeast direction to Chillagoe . From there, the unpaved road becomes a paved road again, which curves over east and north-east to the end point in Dimbulah.

This section is 743 kilometers long.

expansion

In mid-2007, AU $ 28 million was invested in widening the Burke Development Road.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ maps.bonzle.com - Burke Developmental Road . Retrieved April 19, 2012.
2. ^ ^{A b c d} Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 12 + 13
3. ^ Bridge named in honor of Indigenous leaders . In: ABC News Online , Australian Broadcasting Corporation, June 30, 2009. Retrieved March 10, 2011. 
4. ^ North-west Qld shares in road funds . In: ABC Western Queensland , Australian Broadcasting Corporation, July 2, 2007. Retrieved March 10, 2011.