Buntine Highway

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Northern Territory, Western Australia

The Buntine Highway is a highway in the western part of Australia's Northern Territory. It connects the Victoria Highway at Willeroo with the Duncan Road in Nicholson in Western Australia.

Origin of the name

It is named after Noel Lytton Buntine, a road train entrepreneurs of the 1960s and the extent pioneer of overland transport in northern Australia. The family Buntine Road Trains no longer exists, but has a memorial stone that Mrs. Patty Buntine on 19 October 1996 is set for the opening of the highway reminded.

Course

In Willeroo, 125 km south-west of Katherine, branches of the Buntine Highway on the Victoria Highway. First, it runs as a two-lane paved road towards the south and 165 km in Top Springs Buchanan Highway. After crossing the River Armstrong, of Camfield River and Victoria River you reach the next large town Kalkarindji (also called Wave Hill ) for further 170 km away. From here you have access to the in- north Gregory National Park opened. The Buntine Highway, unattached in the further course, ends after about 250 km Nicholson in Western Australia. The nearest major town Halls Creek can be reached on the Duncan Road after 160 km.

The highest point in the course of the highway is 461 m and the lowest at 120 m.

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. Pp. 96 98