Dawson Highway
Dawson Highway Dawson Developmental Road |
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Operator: | Dept. of Transport and Main Roads | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Start of the street: |
Gladstone Mount Larcom Road / Gladstone Benaraby Road Gladstone ( QLD ) ( 23 ° 51 ′ S , 151 ° 15 ′ E ) |
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End of street: |
Landsborough Highway Tambo ( QLD ) ( 24 ° 53 ′ S , 146 ° 15 ′ E ) |
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Overall length: | 630 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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The Dawson Highway is a trunk road in Queensland , Australia . It has a length of 630 km and runs in an east-west direction from Gladstone on the east coast of Australia via Springsure to Tambo on the Landsborough Highway .
course
Gladstone - Rolleston
In the city center of Gladstone, the Dawson Highway branches off to the west from State Road 58 (connection Benaraby – Gladstone – Mount Larcom), runs along Calliope National Park and shortly afterwards crosses the Bruce Highway (NA1). Further west, in Biloela , it crosses the Burnett Highway (A3) and leads up into Banana Ridge . In Banana he crosses the Leichhardt Highway (A5) and continues on his way through bushland. After crossing the Comet River , the Dawson Highway reaches Rolleston .
Rolleston - Jumping Sure
From Rolleston, the Dawson Highway takes over the name A7 from the Carnarvon Highway connected to the south and continues 70 km to the northwest, where it merges into the Gregory Highway (A7) in Springsure , which runs parallel to the coast to the north.
Springsure - Tambo
From Springsure the street is called Dawson Developmental Road and is again number S60. It crosses - partly unpaved - the catchment area of the Nogoa River north of the Carnarvon National Park in a west-southwest direction. It turns south in Killarney Park and meets the Landsborough Highway (NA2) 42 km further in Tambo.
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 10 + 11