Luritja Road

Luritja Road
Basic data
Operator:	NT Roads
Start of the street:	Larapinta Drive Watarrka National Park ( NT ) ( 24 ° 17 ′  S , 131 ° 34 ′  E )
End of street:	Lasseter Highway northeast of Curtin Springs ( NT ) ( 25 ° 10 ′  S , 132 ° 11 ′  E )
Overall length:	147 km
States :	Northern Territory
At the southern end just before the Lasseter Highway

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Luritja Road is a tourist road in the south of the Australian Northern Territory . It connects Larapinta Drive in Watarrka National Park with the Lasseter Highway between Mount Ebenezer and Curtin Springs . The street is part of the Red Center Way . The name refers to Luritja , a tribe of the Aborigines .

course

The two-lane Luritja Road, paved along its entire length, is the continuation of Larapinta Drive (S6), which connects Hermannsburg with the Watarrka National Park. It runs from the national park in an east-southeast direction through the settlement of Kings Creek at the southeast corner of the national park about 80 kilometers to the Wallara Ranch .

There the Ernest Giles Road branches off to the east, which crosses the Palmer River and ends on the Stuart Highway (N87). Luritja Road continues south, past Angas Downs station . On the ridge of the Kernot Range , it meets the Lasseter Highway (S4), 52 kilometers northeast of Curtin Springs , which leads from the Stuart Highway towards Uluṟu .

The highest point along the road is at 669  m , the lowest at 484  m .

literature

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ maps.bonzle.com - Luritja Road . Retrieved April 19, 2012.