Moonie Highway
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Operator: | Dept. of Transport and Main Roads | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Start of the street: |
Warrego Highway Bunya Highway Dalby ( QLD ) ( 27 ° 11 ′ S , 151 ° 16 ′ E ) |
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/ A55 Carnarvon Highway A55 Castlereagh Highway Balonne Highway St. George ( QLD ) ( 28 ° 0 ′ S , 148 ° 39 ′ E ) |
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Overall length: | 298 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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The Moonie Highway is a trunk road in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland . It connects the Warrego Highway (NA2) in Dalby with the Leichhardt Highway (A5) in Moonie and the Carnarvon Highway (R46, A55) and the Castlereagh Highway (A55) in St. George .
The highway marked as State Road 49 represents the continuation of the Balonne Highway (S49) to the east, or the continuation of the Bunya Highway (S49) to the southwest. It is after the small town Moonie and the Moonie River , which it accompanies on its south bank and shortly before crossing St. George, named.
There are agricultural settlements as well as oil and gas fields on this highway. It also opens up Lake Broadwater National Park in the Condamine River Valley , as well as Southwood National Park and Alton National Park in the Moonie River Valley.
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 8 + 9