Kamilaroi Highway

Kamilaroi Highway
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Basic data
Operator:	Roads and Maritime Services
Start of the street:	New England Highway; north of Willow Tree ( NSW ); ( 31 ° 38 ′ S , 150 ° 43 ′ E )
End of street:	Mitchell Highway Kidman Way Bourke ( NSW ) ( 30 ° 5 ′ S , 145 ° 57 ′ E ); ; ;
Overall length:	598 km
States :	New South Wales
	Small mirage on the Kamilaroi Highway near Cryon

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Kamilaroi Highway is a trunk road in the north of the Australian state of New South Wales . It connects the New England Highway at Willow Tree with the Mitchell Highway and Kidman Way in Bourke . The road, only recently designated as National Road 37, was formerly known as State Road 29.

Naming

The highway is after living in the area Aboriginesstamm the Kamilaori named.

course

North of Willow Tree in the Liverpool Range , part of the Great Dividing Range , the Kamilaroi Highway branches off from the New England Highway (N15) to the northwest and a little later crosses the town of Quirindi . Along the Namoi River , the road curves to the west, crossing the towns of Gunnedah , Boggabri , Narrabri and Wee Waa . In Gunnedah it crosses the Oxley Highway (R34) and in Narrabri the Newell Highway (N39). In Walgett on the Barwon River, it crosses the Castlereagh Highway (R55).

Along the Barwon River for the Kamilaroi Highway further west through Brewarrina and at the confluence of the Barwon River and Culgoa River to the Darling River past Bourke on the Darling River. There it ends on Mitchell Highway (R71) and Kidman Way (S87).

This makes the Kamilaroi Highway the shortest route between the Great Dividing Range and the outback of New South Wales.

The Rock

3 miles north of Boggabri is a spectacular landmark, Gin's Leap , known only as The Rock in the days of the stagecoach operator Cobb and Co.

Legend has it that an Aboriginal girl who had been promised to the Kamilaroi elders ran away with a young man from another tribe. The lovers escaped persecution by the Kamilaroi by leaping fatally from this rock.

Web links

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 26, 28, 31