Gillies Highway
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| Operator: | Dept. of Transport and Main Roads | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Start of the street: |
 Bruce HighwayGordonvale ( QLD ) ( 17 ° 6 ′ S , 145 ° 47 ′ E ) |
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| End of street: |
 Kennedy HighwayAtherton ( QLD ) ( 17 ° 16 ′ S , 145 ° 29 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 53 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Gillies Highway is a trunk road in Queensland , Australia . It has a length of 53 km and runs in a northeast-southwest direction from Gordonvale on the east coast of Australia to Atherton on the Kennedy Highway .
Immediately after Little Mulgrave the road climbs in serpentines through the Lamb Range into the Atherton Tablelands . Via Yungaburra on the south bank of Lake Tinaroo it leads to Atherton, where the Atherton Herberton Road joins as a continuation.
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 14