Strzelecki Track
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B83 Barndioota Road Lyndhurst ( SA ) ( 30 ° 17 ′ S , 138 ° 21 ′ E ) |
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Adventure Way Innamincka ( SA ) ( 27 ° 45 ′ S , 140 ° 44 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 459 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Development condition: | unpaved | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Strzelecki Track is an unpaved outback slope in the northeast of the Australian state of South Australia . It connects the Copley Lyndhurst Road in Lyndhurst with the Adventure Way in Innamincka .
history
The name Strzelecki Track is derived from the desert of the same name and the stream of the same name that accompany the outback piste. It goes back to the Polish explorer Paul Edmund de Strzelecki .
The Australian cattle thief and folk hero Harry Redford first used the 459 km long connection in 1870 to drive a herd of 600 to 1000 animals from Queensland to South Australia to the Blanchewater cattle station in order to sell them there. The ruins of this station can be seen from the Strzelecki Track.
course
In Lyndhurst, the road branches off from Barndioota Road (B83) to the east and runs along the northern edge of the northern Flinders range . She crosses a number of streams. After 80 km a track branches off to Mount Freeling to the east, while the Strzelecki Track continues its way north and crosses the dingo fence . A little later it turns again to the east, passes Lake Blanche in the southeast and Lake Callabonna in the northwest and turns again to the north.
From there, the piste accompanies the Strzelecki Creek through the desert of the same name to the north and crosses it at Strzelecki Crossing . 10 km east of the Merty Merty settlement , a slope from Cameron Corner meets the Strzelecki Track. From this point on, the road used to follow the stream, but today it leads directly to the north, where it opens up the gas and oil fields near Moomba . In Moomba the road turns sharply to the east, crosses the Strzelecki Creek and the Old Strzelecki Track again and also opens up the gas field near Della . The last approx. 50 km of the Strzelecki Track leads north again through the Innamincka Regional Reserve , a state reserve.
The Strzelecki Track ends in Innamincka. The Cordillo Downs Track continues north while the Adventure Way crosses the nearby border into Queensland to the east. The Coongie Track leads to the northwest.
Road conditions
The entire length of the road is unpaved. Although not recommended, it can now be used by normal vehicles in dry weather.
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 73