Carpentaria Highway

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Carpentaria Highway
Route 1
map
Outline map Carpentaria Highway
Basic data
Operator: NT Roads
Start of the street: N87 Stuart Highway
south of Daly Waters ( NT )
( 16 ° 18 ′  S , 133 ° 23 ′  E )
End of street: R1 Savannah Way
Borroloola ( NT )
( 16 ° 5 ′  S , 136 ° 18 ′  E )
Overall length: 379 km

States :

Northern Territory

Course of the road
Gas station Rest stop Hiway Inn N87( Stuart Highway )
crossing Amungee Mungee Road
crossing Tanunmbrini Road
flow October Creek
Locality Cape Crawford
S11 ( Tablelands Highway ), Savannah Way
crossing McArthur River Road
flow Barney Creek
crossing Tawallah Road
Locality Borroloola R1 ( Savannah Way )

The Carpentaria Highway is a trunk road in the northeast of the Australian Northern Territory . It connects the Stuart Highway at Daly Waters with the Savannah Way in Borroloola on the Gulf of Carpentaria . The road is signposted as National Highway 1 along its entire length .

course

The Carpentaria Highway begins 4 km south of Daly Waters , where it branches off in an easterly direction from the Stuart Highway (N1 / N87). On the way there are a few turns to scattered farms in the outback . The only larger town on the Carpentaria Highway is Cape Crawford after 269 km. At Cape Crawford the Tablelands Highway (S11) branches off and leads south to the Barkly Highway (N66). The Savannah Way flows from the north , which is an outback track in this area and heads north to the Roper Highway (S20).

The Carpentaria Highway continues together with the Savannah Way in a northeast direction past the McArthur River Mine , where silver, zinc and lead are mined, as well as the now closed Merlin Diamond Mine . The Carpentaria Highway ends in Borroloola, about 70 km northeast of the mines, and the Savannah Way (R1) continues as the Great Top Road in a southeast direction to Burketown in Queensland .

The highest point on the highway is 319 m, the lowest is 7 m.

Road conditions and gas stations

The Carpentaria Highway is paved throughout, but sometimes only has one lane. The asphalt has sometimes deep ruts, so that special care is required when driving with cars with normal ground clearance. Refueling is available at the beginning of the street at Hiway Inn , in Cape Crawford and at the end of the street in Borroloola.

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 96 + 97

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ maps.bonzle.com - Carpentaria Highway . Retrieved April 19, 2012.