Burke Developmental Road

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Queensland

The Burke Developmental Road is a 1132 km long highway in the north of the Australian state of Queensland. It gives access to the south, along the southeast coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria to the east coast to Cairns and to the inland. It combines the Barkly Highway and the Flinders Highway at Cloncurry with the Savannah Way at Normanton, then continues towards the northeast to the Mitchell River and accompanies this upstream. In Dimbulah the Burke Developmental Road passes into Mareeba Dimbulah Road, which overcomes the last 46 kilometers after Mareeba.

The highest point in the course of the highway is 645 m, the lowest 2 m.

Course

Cloncurry - Normanton

In the western suburbs of Cloncurry the Burke Developmental Road branches off from the Barkly Highway ( A2) and Flinders Highway ( A6) to the north. Between Leichhardt River, Alexandra River and Cloncurry River leads through grasslands to the north - north-west and crosses the Wills Developmental Road. From this intersection, it continues its way to North - Northeast and takes just before the Gulf Developmental Road Normanton from the east and the Great Top Road from the west on. Normanton reached the continuous fixed, guided under number D83 road to 389 km.

Normanton - Dimbulah

Normanton leaves the Burke Developmental Road to the north east as State Road 27 after only 30 kilometers takes them out of the west as the main street connecting to Karumba on the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria on. Soon after, she turns into a dirt road and crosses on their way to Dunbar on the Mitchell River, a large number of major rivers to the Gulf of Carpentaria. One of these rivers is the Gilbert River. The bridge over this river were after two local Aborigineshäuptlingen, Lily and Jubilee Slattery, named.

From Dunbar, the road follows the Mitchell River to east -south-east upriver to Wrotham Park. There she leaves the river and crosses the headwaters towards southeast to Chillagoe. From there, the dirt road is back to the paved road that runs in an arc across east and northeast to the endpoint Dimbulah.

This section is 743 km long.

Extension

Mid-2007 were put 28 million in the expansion of the Burke Development Road Au $.