Nepean Highway
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| Operator: | VicRoads |
| Start of the street: |
Swanston Street Flinders Street Melbourne ( VIC ) ( 37 ° 49 ′ S , 144 ° 58 ′ E ) |
| End of street: |
Point Nepean (Portsea) ( VIC ) ( 38 ° 19 ′ S , 144 ° 42 ′ E ) |
| Overall length: | 91 km |
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The Nepean Highway is a trunk road in the south of the Australian state of Victoria . It connects Melbourne city center with Portsea at the tip of the Mornington Peninsula along the east bank of Port Phillip . It is the main road link from the southern suburbs to Melbourne city center.
history
In the 1850s, the Arthurs Seat Road was built on this route , a sandy dirt road that connects the farms south of Melbourne (which belonged to Alexander Balcombe ) and the settlements in the southern part of Port Phillip to Point Nepean . At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the street was renamed Point Nepean Road and since 1948 it has been officially called the Nepean Highway. This name refers to Point Nepean, which in turn was named after the British politician and colonial administrator Sir Evan Nepean (1751-1822).
From the 1950s to around 1980, the road between downtown Melbourne and Mordialloc was gradually expanded into a four-lane expressway without a median. The widening of the bridge in Mordialloc was finally completed in early 2009.
course
Melbourne to Mornington
The Nepean Highway begins at the end of Swanston Street at the junction with Flinders Street in Melbourne city center. She crosses Princes Bridge , where it becomes St. Kilda Road , a four-lane boulevard that is also used by trams. She passes the Victorian Arts Center (from which she is numbered S3) and the Shrine of Remembrance before reaching St. Kilda Junction. Soon after, at the intersection with Carlisle Street , it changes its name again to Brighton Road . It is only officially called 'Nepean Highway' from Glen Huntly Road in Elsternwick . Tram route 67 (Carnegie Tram) travels this street until it turns onto Glen Huntly Road.
From Glen Huntly Road, the speed limit increases from 50 km / h to 80 km / h and the road becomes an eight-lane city motorway with a median. In Moorabbin , the width will be reduced to six lanes again as the road runs through the suburbs of Cheltenham and Mentone . Then, after the roundabout in Mordialloc, it becomes a four-lane street without a median with a maximum speed of 60–70 km / h. The path continues directly along Port Phillip to Frankston and up to Olivers Hill , from where you have a good view of Frankston and the bay.
Mornington Peninsula
Shortly after Mount Martha , the highway joins the Mornington Peninsula Freeway (S11) until it turns towards Dromana . Here the Nepean Highway becomes Point Nepean Road and from here Arthur's Seat is easy to reach, from where you have a beautiful view of the bay and on a clear day you can see the skyscrapers of Melbourne (distance: approx. 45 km). Anthony's Nose is a point between Dromana and McCrae where a rock step emerges on the south bank of Port Phillip. The highway runs between The Nose and the shore of the bay. It was named by Charles La Trobe in 1839 . In the 1920s, The Nose was modified to prevent the street from flooding every day at high tide.
The B110 state road leaves the Mornington Peninsula in Sorrento and follows the ferry to Queenscliff , from where it marks the Bellarine Highway . The Nepean Highway, however, continues 4 km further northwest to the village of Portsea , where it ends at a roundabout. There is the entrance to Point Nepean, a former defense battery and quarantine station of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Important junctions and junctions
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Nepean Highway
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| Connections to the north | Distance to Melbourne (km) |
distance to Frankston (km) |
Connections to the south |
End of Nepean Highway (St. Kilda Road) further than St. Kilda Road to Melbourne  |
4.6 | 35.4 |
Start of Nepean Highway (St. Kilda Road) from St. Kilda Road and Punt Road
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Ballarat , Bendigo , Geelong via Queens Road Freeway ( Princes Highway )   
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St. Kilda Fitzroy Street 
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| to dandenong ; South Yarra , Richmond , Clifton Hill, Heidelberg Punt Road
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St. Kilda Fitzroy Street
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Elwood Barkly Street
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4.8 | 35.2 |
St. Kilda , Elwood Barkly Street
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| Glen Huntly Glen Eira Road 
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7th | 33 | Ripponlea, Glen Huntly Glen Eira Road
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further than
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7.9 | 32.1 |
Toorak Hotham Street 
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Toorak , Burnley Hotham Street
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along with
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| Magpie Wick | 8th | 32 | Magpie Wick |
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along with
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8.3 | 31.7 |
Brighton Rusden Street
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Brighton Rusden Street
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further than
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Elwood , Ormond North Road 
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9.9 | 30.1 | Ormond, Oakleigh, Elwood North Road
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further than
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11.8 | 28.2 | Caulfield Hawthorn Road 
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| Caulfield, Malvern Hawthorn Road
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along with
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Brighton , Bentleigh Center Road 
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12 | 28 | Bentleigh, Clayton, Brighton Center Road
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along with
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13.3 | 26.7 | Sandringham, Black Rock Cummins Road
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Black Rock Cummins Road
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continues as
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to  Beach Road South Road 
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14.4 | 25.6 | Noble Park; to  Frankston, Portsea on the South Road Freeway
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| Moorabbin | 14.8 | 25.2 | Moorabbin |
| RAILWAY LINE TO FRANKSTON | RAILWAY LINE TO FRANKSTON | ||
| Cheltenham | 17.6 | 22.4 | Cheltenham |
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further than
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20.7 | 19.3 | Mentone Balcombe Road 
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| Mentone, Black Rock Balcombe Road
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along with
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| to Beach Road; Oakleigh, Burwood, Surrey Hills Warrigal Road 
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20.8 | 19.2 | Oakleigh, Parkdale Warrigal Road
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along with
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21st | 19th | Keysborough, Dandenong Lower Dandenong Road
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Dandenong Lower Dandenong Road
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further than
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| RAILWAY LINE TO FRANKSTON | 23.3 | 16.7 | RAILWAY LINE TO FRANKSTON |
| Mordialloc | 24 | 16 | Mordialloc |
Beach Road 
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24.2 | 15.8 |
Beach Road
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| Aspendale | 26.7 | 13.3 | Aspendale |
| Edithvale | 28.1 | 11.9 | Edithvale |
| Springvale, Glen Waverley Edithvale Road 
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Springvale Edithvale Road
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| Chelsea | 29.7 | 10.3 | Chelsea |
| Patterson Lakes, Cranbourne McLeod Road across Station Street 
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32.3 | 7.7 | Patterson Lakes, Cranbourne McLeod Road across Station Street
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| Carrum | Carrum | ||
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Dandenong Fletcher Road 
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39.6 | 0.4 | Cranbourne, Flinders Fletcher Road
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| Frankston | 40 | 0 | Frankston |
| Connections to the north | Distance to Frankston (km) |
Distance to Mornington (km) |
Connections to the south |
Cranbourne, Berwick ; to Melbourne via Freeway Davey Street  
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0.5 | 12 | Hastings, Flinders Davey Street
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| Somerville, Tooradin Bungower Road
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11 | 1.5 | Somerville Bungower Road
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End start
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12.5 | 0 | Mornington |
to  ; Moorooduc, Tyabb Mornington-Tyabb Road 
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to Mount Martha, Safety Beach; Tyabb, Moorooduc Mornington-Tyabb Road
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End start
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| Connections to the north | Distance to Mornington (km) |
Distance to Flinders (km) |
Connections to the south |
| Frankston, Melbourne Mornington Peninsula Freeway 
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8.5 | 24.5 | Frankston, Melbourne Mornington Peninsula Freeway
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End further than
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9 | 24 | Dromana, Portsea, Mornington Peninsula Freeway
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| Dromana, Portsea, Mornington Peninsula Freeway
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further than
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13 | 20th | Red Hill, Flinders; to White Hill Road
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| Red Hill; to Hastings White Hill Road
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| Connections to the east | Distance to Hastings (km) |
Distance to Dromana (km) |
Connections to the west |
| Portsea Mornington Peninsula Freeway
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22.5 | 2.5 | Portsea Mornington Peninsula Freeway
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further than
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23 | 2 |
End further than
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| Mornington, Frankston, Melbourne Mornington Peninsula Freeway
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Frankston, Melbourne Mornington Peninsula Freeway
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further than Nepean Highway
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24 | 1 | Mount Martha, Mornington Marine Parade
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| Mount Martha, Mornington Marine Parade
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further than Point Nepean Road (Nepean Highway)
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| Dromana | 25th | 0 | Dromana |
| Connections to the north | Distance to Melbourne via Freeway (km) |
Distance to Portsea (km) |
Connections to the south |
Melbourne via Freeway ; Arthurs Seat, Red Hill McCulloch Street 
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82 | 25th | Arthurs Seat, Red Hill McCulloch Street
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Melbourne via Freeway ; McCrae Lonsdale Street
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85 | 21st | McCrae Lonsdale Street
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| Main Ridge Jetty Road
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86 | 20th | Main Ridge Jetty Road
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| Rosebud | 87 | 19th | Rosebud |
Melbourne via Freeway ; Boneo, Flinders Boneo Road 
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90.5 | 18th |
Melbourne via Freeway ; Boneo, Flinders Boneo Road
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Melbourne via Eastbourne Road Freeway via Elizabeth Avenue 
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91.5 | 16.5 |
Eastbourne Road across Elizabeth Avenue
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| Rye | 96 | 12 | Rye |
| Blairgowrie | 100 | 8th | Blairgowrie |
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Ferry to Queenscliff
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104 | 4th |
Ferry to Queenscliff
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| Sorrento | 104.2 | 3.8 | Sorrento |
| Portsea | 109 | 0 | Portsea |
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Start of Point Nepean Road (Nepean Highway) from Point Nepean National Park |
110 | - |
End of Point Nepean Road (Nepean Highway) Entrance to Point Nepean National Park |
Web links
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 42 + 43
Individual evidence
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