Lake Highway

Highland Lakes Road Lake Highway
Basic data
Operator:	THIS
Start of the street:	Midland Highway Melton Mowbray ( 42 ° 28 ′  S , 147 ° 11 ′  E )
End of street:	Bass Highway Deloraine ( 41 ° 31 ′  S , 146 ° 40 ′  E )
Overall length:	146 km
States :	Tasmania

The Lake Highway is a road in the center of the Australian state of Tasmania , which leads from Melton Mowbray via Bothwell , past Great Lake , to Deloraine . Its official name has been Highland Lakes Road since 2001 .

course

The Lake Highway branches off in Melton Mowbray in the south of the island from the Midland Highway and leads 146 km north to Deloraine. Bothwell is the largest city on the highway. It is the only major road in Tasmania that is not paved throughout. This highway is one of the least traveled highways in Tasmania, except in the summer months when it is used by tourists heading to the Great Lake. The section along the Great Lake and in its vicinity on the central plateau is an average of 1000 m. In the winter months this section is sometimes snowed up and closed.

Two major roads branch off the Lake Highway: to the west the Marlborough Highway (B11), which is the connection to the Lyell Highway , and to the east the Poatina Road (B51), which leaves the Lake Highway north of Steppes , and is steep and serpentine the Great Western Tiers down to Poatina , the former workers' settlement for the construction of dams and power stations.

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 55, 59, 61

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