Hopkins Highway
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| Operator: | VicRoads | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Start of the street: |
 Hamilton HighwayMortlake ( VIC ) ( 38 ° 5 ′ S , 142 ° 48 ′ E ) |
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| End of street: |
 Princes HighwayWarrnambool ( VIC ) ( 38 ° 23 ′ S , 142 ° 29 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 49 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Hopkins Highway is a trunk road in the southwest of the Australian state of Victoria . It connects the Hamilton Highway in Mortlake with the Princes Highway in the port city of Warrnambool .
course
The Hopkins Highway branches off in Mortlake from the Hamilton Highway (B140) to the southwest. At Ellerslie it crosses the Hopkins River , after which it was named. Soon afterwards it swings south, only to take a south-westerly direction again at Purnim . At Bushfield on the Merri River it turns south again and then reaches the Princes Highway (A1) to its end point Warrnambool.
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 44