Lasseter Highway

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Lasseter Highway
Australian State Route 4.svg
map
Outline map of the Lasseter Highway
Basic data
Operator: NT Roads
Start of the street: N87 Stuart Highway
Erldunda ( NT )
( 25 ° 12 ′  S , 133 ° 12 ′  E )
End of street: Tjukaruru Road
Kata Tjuṯa ( NT )
( 25 ° 18 ′  S , 130 ° 43 ′  E )
Overall length: 287 km

States :

Northern Territory

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Lasseter Highway at Mount Conner Lookout near Curtin Springs (March 2010)
Course of the road
Locality Erldunda N87 ( Stuart Highway )
Locality Mount Ebenezer
crossing S3( Luritja Road )
crossing Mulga Park Road
Locality Curtin Springs
Locality Yulara
crossing S4 (Lasseter Highway (Uluṟu Section))
Locality Kata Tjuṯa : Tjukaruru Road

The Lasseter Highway is a trunk road in the south of the Australian Northern Territory . As part of the Red Center Way , it is 288 km long, paved throughout, runs in an east-west direction and connects the Stuart Highway with the Uluṟu-Kata-Tjuṯa National Park . Since it offers the best-developed access to this tourist destination, it is used more by buses and cars than by road trains .

The name of the highway goes back to the gold prospector Harold Lasseter (1880–1931).

course

Signpost on the Lasseter Highway

The Lasseter Highway begins in Erldunda , a town with a roadhouse and hotel, on the Stuart Highway (N87). This connects Darwin in the north and Adelaide in the south of the Australian continent and thus offers good access to the Lasseter Highway.

From Erldunda the Lasseter Highway leads west along the southern edge of the Basedow Range . After about 110 km, in the Kernot Range , the Luritja Road (S3) joins from the north . Luritja Road, together with Ernest Giles Road, is the southern entrance to Watarrka National Park and Kings Canyon .

Another 25 km to the southwest is a rest area known as Mount Conner Lookout . It offers a view of Mount Conner , a 300 m high table mountain in the outback south of the road. Curtin Springs Station , a cattle ranch and roadhouse, is 22 km away .

Another 100 km west of the Lasseter Highway reaches the village of Yulara . It is a tourist settlement that was established in the 1980s to better cater and offer more amenities to tourists visiting Uluṟu-Kata-Tjuṯa National Park .

From Yulara it is another 3 km to the national park and another 5 km to the fork in the road that leads to Uluṟu (Ayers Rock) 10 km away or to Kata Tjuṯa (The Olgas), 43 km further west . The Lasseter Highway ends at the Olgas. From there further west leads the Great Central Road , a dirt road, which is also called Tjukaruru Road in the Northern Territory and leads along the north side of the Petermann Ranges to the border to Western Australia .

The highest point on the highway is at 521 m, the lowest at 415 m.

Gas stations

There are petrol stations in Erldunda (km 0), Mount Ebenezer (km 57), Curtin Springs (km 159) and Yulara (km 245).

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Page 100

Web links

Commons : Lasseter Highway  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ maps.bonzle.com - Lasseter Highway . Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  2. ↑ Guide of the Central Australian Tourism Industry Association from 2010