Wills Developmental Road
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| Start of the street: |
 Landsborough Highwayeast of Kynuna ( QLD ) ( 21 ° 34 ′ S , 141 ° 57 ′ E ) |
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 Nardoo Burketown Road Burketown ( QLD ) ( 17 ° 44 ′ S , 139 ° 33 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 621 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Wills Developmental Road is a trunk road in the northwest of the Australian state of Queensland . It connects the Landsborough Highway at Kynuna with the Flinders Highway in Julia Creek , then continues northwest, crosses Burke Developmental Road and ends on Savannah Way in Burketown . The last 16 miles to Burketown is on National Highway 1 .
course
Kynuna - Julia Creek
The Wills Developmental Road branches off a few kilometers east of Kynuna from the Landsborough Highway to the north and runs along Eastern Creek . Of the 70 miles (113 km) of this section, only the final 15 km between Longford Plains and Julia Creek are paved. The rest is unpaved slope.
Julia Creek - Burketown
Julia Creek leaves Wills Developmental Road along with Flinders Highway to the west. 4 km west of the city center, it branches off to the northwest and crosses various tributaries of the Flinders River . At the Burke & Wills Roadhouse, she crosses Burke Developmental Road and continues on her way to the northwest. After crossing the Alexandra River and the Leichhardt River , it reaches the Gregory River at Gregory Downs . This 385 km section is paved. From Gregory Downs the Wills Developmental Road runs as an unpaved road north to the confluence of Doomadgee Road , which connects to the west into the Northern Territory . From this confluence it leads as the Savannah Way (N1) to the northeast to the end point Burketown on the Albert River , from where the Nardoo Burketown Road (N1) continues to the southeast. The unpaved section is 119 km long.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 12 + 16