Duncan Road

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Northern Territory Western Australia

The Duncan Road ( formerly Highway Duncan ) is a dirt Outbackpiste on the western border of the Australian Northern Territory and in the north east of Western Australia. It connects the Victoria Highway just before the border with the Great Northern Highway in Halls Creek.

Course

About 18 km east of the border of the Northern Territory to Western Australia and 56 kilometers east of Kununurra branches off the Duncan Road from Victoria Highway ( N1) to the south. They crossed the border in the course several times and roughly follows the course of the Ord River. After about 170 km, you can see the foothills of the Bungle Bungle Range, the characteristic hills of Purnululu National Park, in the west. However, there is no direct access from the Duncan Road to the park. In Nicholson, 100 km further south, opens a the Buntine Highway from the east. The Duncan Road runs along from there to the west and ends after 160 km in Halls Creek on the Great Northern Highway (N1).

The highest point in the course of the road is 52 m, the lowest at 40 m.

History

The road was built as an unpaved path that connected the various cattle ranches along the Ord River together. In order to promote the industrialization of this region, the line was expanded under the name Wyndham- Nicholson Road from 1950 to 1956. Only in 1961 it received the name Duncan Highway, according to Ron Duncan, who was working as a road engineer for the government in this area in the 1950s.

1976 lost the road the status of Highway and since then is, only Duncan Road.

Road Conditions

Although it is a dirt road, the state is consistently good. All river crossings are attached. However, there are more than 400 km of track no tank option.

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. Pp. 89 98