Eyre Highway

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South Australia Western Australia

The Eyre Highway is a highway in the south of the Australian continent. It connects the Princes Highway and the Stuart Highway in Port Augusta ( South Australia ) with the Coolgardie - Esperance Highway in Norseman (Western Australia). It has a length of 1675 km and is part of the Australian National Highway 1, which connects Perth with Adelaide.

Origin of the name

The Eyre Highway is named after Edward John Eyre Lander researchers.

Course

South Australia

The road begins in Port Augusta, about 230 km north-west of Adelaide, where the Princes Highway ( NA1 ) from the south and the Stuart Highway ( NA87 ) from the north.. meet The Eyre Highway leaves the city to the southwest. Already 26 km further branches off to the south of the Lincoln Highway from (B100 ), which opens up the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula. The Eyre Highway crosses the peninsula in the north. In the middle of crossing branches, also to the south, the death Highway ( B90 ) and opens from the center of the peninsula. From there on the Eyre Highway runs northwest and takes just before Ceduna the Flinders Highway (B100 ), which runs along the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula. The following 486 km to the border of Western Australia runs through the Eyre Highway in an arc to the west along the coast of the Great Australian Bight, with no major settlements and without significant branches. The western part of the route runs along the southern edge of the Nullarbor Plain.

Western Australia

The landscape continues after crossing the border. The approximately 350 km to the Cocklebiddy motel where a dirt road branches off to the north by Rawlinna parallel trans- Australian railway, the road runs close to the coast. Then it leads further 366 km to the west, while the coastline to west -south-west pulls. There is also the longest straight stretch of road (see below). In the Norseman Eyre Highway meets the running in a north-south direction Coolgardie Esperance Highway ( N94 / R1 ) and ends.

Special

Along the road is located between Caiguna and Balladonia with 146.6 km length of the longest completely rectilinear street in Australia.

Serve some parts of the road, due to the remoteness of other landing facilities, as Notlandebahn for the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.