Plenty Highway

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Plenty Highway
Australian State Route 12.svg
map
Outline map of the Plenty Highway
Basic data
Operator: NT Roads
Start of the street: N87 Stuart Highway
north of Alice Springs ( NT )
( 23 ° 8 ′  S , 133 ° 42 ′  E )
End of street: Donohue Highway
east of Tober Money ( NT )
( 22 ° 17 '  S , 138 ° 0'  O )
Overall length: 490 km

States :

Northern Territory

Course of the road
crossing N87( Stuart Highway )
crossing S14( Sandover Highway )
Gas station Rest stop Gem Tree Caravan Park
flow Mueller Creek
Locality Mount Riddoch
Locality Hart's range
Locality Huckitta
Locality Jinka
flow Plenty River
flow Marshall River
Locality Jervois
flow Arthur Creek
Locality Tobermorey
crossing Donohue Highway

The Plenty Highway is a trunk road in the southeast of Australia's Northern Territory . It connects the Stuart Highway north of Alice Springs with the Donohue Highway in the west of the state of Queensland .

Its entire length is part of the Outback Highway , which runs 2800 km through the center of Australia.

course

The track branches off the Stuart Highway (N87) 69 km north of Alice Springs , initially runs north for 27 km and then turns east. It runs along the north side of the Harts Range and crosses the Plenty River , from which it takes its name, and the Marshall River . On the Queensland border, east of the Tobermorey settlement, it merges into the Donohue Highway , which continues to Boulia .

The highest point on the highway is at 706 m, the lowest at 169 m.

Road conditions and gas stations

Only the first 100 km to Ongeva Creek are paved. The rest of the route is unpaved and characterized by deep potholes and bulldust (fine red desert dust). The condition can be inquired at the Harts Range Police Station, 112 km east of the Stuart Highway. Food, water, and fuel are available at Gem Tree, Harts Range, Jervois Homestead, and Tobermorey.

There are petrol stations at the Gem Tree Caravan Park, in Harts Range, in Jervois and in Tobermorey.

Web links

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 101

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plenty Highway at www.ExplorOz.com ( English ). Retrieved April 12, 2009.
  2. ↑ maps.bonzle.com - Plenty Highway . Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ Australia Easy Read - Road and 4WD Atlas . Hema Maps, Brisbane 2007, ISBN 978-1-86500-395-5 .