Telegraph Road

This article covers the Telegraph Road in Australia. For the street of the same name in Detroit, Michigan see Telegraph Road (Michigan) and for the song of the same name see Telegraph Road (song) .

Telegraph Road
Basic data
Operator:	Dep. of Transport and Main Roads
Start of the street:	Peninsula Developmental Road ( 13 ° 5 ′  S , 142 ° 46 ′  E )
End of street:	Cape York ( QLD ) ( 10 ° 44 ′  S , 142 ° 36 ′  E )
Overall length:	304 km
States :	Queensland
Old Telegraph Track

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Telegraph Road is a highway in the extreme Tropical North Queensland , Australia . It runs in a south-north direction and has a length of 304 km. It is the only road link to the tip of the Cape York Peninsula . It is unpaved along its entire length.

course

The Telegraph Road branches north of the Mungkan-Kandju National Park from the Peninsula Developmental Road (S81) to the north.

It runs through the middle of the Cape York Peninsula, about equidistant from its east and west coast. It follows the Jardine River National Park on its western border and ends in Cape York , the northernmost point of mainland Australia.

Many branch roads branch off from Telegraph Road to sheep breeding stations.

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 15