Gulf Developmental Road
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| Operator: | Dept. of Transport and Main Roads | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Start of the street: |
 Kennedy Highway Kennedy Developmental Road Forty Mile Scrub ( 18 ° 2 ′ S , 144 ° 51 ′ E ) |
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| End of street: |
83 Burke Developmental Road Normanton ( 17 ° 40 ′ S , 141 ° 4 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 445 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Gulf Developmental Road is a highway in Tropical North Queensland , Australia . It runs in an east-west direction and has a length of approx. 445 kilometers. Gulf Developmental Road is part of National Highway 1 and the Savannah Way for its entire length .
course
The Gulf Developmental Road begins south of Forty Mile Scrub National Park . It branches off at the junction of the Kennedy Highway to Kennedy Developmental Road in a westerly direction.
The route is a single-lane paved road. It mostly leads through flat bushland, which is characterized by dry grass and termite mounds . In the course of the route there are numerous branches to farms scattered around the outback . Major towns along the Gulf Developmental Road are Mount Surprise , Georgetown, and Croydon . In Georgetown, coming from Charters Towers in the southeast, Croydon Georgetown Road , continuation of Gregory Developmental Road , meets Gulf Developmental Road.
The end of Gulf Developmental Road is south of Normanton on the Gulf of Carpentaria . Here it meets the Burke Developmental Road , which continues north from Cloncurry in the south. A few kilometers north, before Normanton, the Great Top Road branches off as a continuation of the route to Burketown and further into the Northern Territory to the west.