Peninsula Developmental Road
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Operator: | Dep. of Transport and Main Roads | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Start of the street: |
Mulligan Highway Lakeland QLD ( 15 ° 52 ′ S , 144 ° 51 ′ E ) |
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End of street: | Culleen Point QLD ( 11 ° 58 ' S , 141 ° 54' O ) |
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Overall length: | 658 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peninsula Developmental Road in Coen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course of the road
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The Peninsula Developmental Road is a trunk road in the tropical north of Queensland , Australia . It runs in a south-north direction and has a length of 685 kilometers. It is the only road connection to the Cape York Peninsula . It is unpaved along its entire length.
course
The Peninsula Developmental Road branches off the Mulligan Highway (S81) to the northwest in Lakeland .
It runs along the southwest edge of Lakefield National Park and then follows the east coast of the peninsula at a distance of about 50-60 kilometers. North of the Mungkan-Kandju National Park , Telegraph Road continues north towards Cape York . The Peninsula Developmental Road turns towards the west coast, which it reaches in Weipa , which is also the largest settlement on this road. From there it leads another 86 kilometers to the north and ends at Culleen Point , a cape on Port Musgrave .
The highest point on the highway is at 546 m, the lowest at 21 m.
From the Peninsula Developmental Road, many branch roads branch off to sheep breeding stations.
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 13 + 15
Individual evidence
- ↑ maps.bonzle.com - Peninsula Developmental Road . Retrieved April 19, 2012.