Daly River Road
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Operator: | NT Roads | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Start of the street: |
Dorat Road south of Adelaide River ( NT ) ( 13 ° 29 ′ S , 131 ° 11 ′ E ) |
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End of street: | Wadeye ( NT ) ( 14 ° 14 ′ S , 129 ° 31 ′ E ) |
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Overall length: | 240 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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The Daly River Road is a trunk road in the north of the Australian Northern Territory . It connects the Dorat Road south of Adelaide River with the settlements of the Aboriginal reservation Daly River / Port Keats on the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf and ends in Wadeye .
course
The paved, two-lane road branches off the Dorat Road (S23) to the west 33 km south of Adelaide River and runs along the southern border of Litchfield National Park . After 78 km the village of Daly River is reached on the upper reaches of the river of the same name .
From there, a dirt road leads southwest to Nganmarriyanga (Palumpa) and Wadeye in the Aboriginal-administered area. An official permit ("Permit") is required for their use.
The highest point along the road is at 194 m, the lowest at 13 m.
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 95 + 96
Individual evidence
- ↑ maps.bonzle.com - Daly River Road . Retrieved April 19, 2012.