Roper Highway
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Operator: | NT Roads | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Start of the street: |
Stuart Highway south of Mataranka ( NT ) ( 14 ° 59 ′ S , 133 ° 5 ′ E ) |
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End of street: |
Numbulwar ( NT ) ( 14 ° 16 ′ S , 135 ° 43 ′ E ) |
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Overall length: | 298 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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The Roper Highway is a 298 km long trunk road in the north of the Australian Northern Territory . It connects Mataranka on the Stuart Highway with the settlement of Ngukurr and Numbulwar in southeastern Arnhem Land , both former Aboriginal mission stations , on the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria . From its beginning on the Stuart Highway to the Roper Bar settlement , the Roper Highway is part of the Savannah Way .
course
The first paved road branches off south of Mataranka from the Sturt Highway (N1) and runs south of Elsey National Park to the east. It crosses the Strangways River , runs south of the eponymous Roper River through Aboriginal land ( Mangarrayi ) and reaches the Roper Valley station . After another 40 kilometers, the asphalt pavement stops and at Roper Bar the highway crosses the Roper River and the Wilton River . 33 kilometers further on is Ngukurr.
The last section of the route, just a dirt road, leads through the Arnhem Land to the east-northeast and may only be used with special permission from the authorities. It leads over the Numbulwar Road to Numbulwar on the estuary of the Rose River .
The highest point on the highway is 164 m, the lowest is 12 m.
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 96 + 97
Individual evidence
- ↑ maps.bonzle.com - Roper Highway . Retrieved April 19, 2012.