Great Eastern Highway

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Western Australia

The Great Eastern Highway is a highway in the south west of the Australian state of Western Australia. It connects the state capital Perth with the Goldfields Highway in the gold mining town of Kalgoorlie. He is the main road from Perth to the eastern Wheatbelt region and the Eastern Goldfields region.

Course

The Great Eastern Highway begins in Victoria Park, an eastern suburb of Perth. He begins at the intersection of Canning Highway ( R1 / S6), which leads from Fremantle to Victoria Park, Causeway (S5 ), which leads from the city center of Perth on the Swan River, and the Albany Highway (S30 ), which in performs the same city. The highway leads us through the densely populated inner city districts of Perth, where it is mainly used by commuters and rush-hour traffic. In the outer districts of the metropolis Perth, which extends to Mundaring, about 35 km northeast of the city center of Perth, drag, decreases the traffic. There, the highway is also less well developed, but there is because of the progressive urbanization of the area constantly measures to develop the Highway.

In the city of The Lakes of the Great Southern Highway ( S120) branches off. This leads first to the east and turns later, heading south and leads up to Albany on the south coast .. The Great Eastern Highway leads after 50 km in a northeasterly direction towards Northam. It is the largest city in the interior of Western Australia, which was not founded as a mining town.

Behind Northam the Great Eastern Highway begins its way through the region of Wheatbelt of Western Australia in the east. Here, the highway passes several Staädte and small places like Mecke ring Cunderin, Kellerberrin, Merredin and Southern Cross. All of these places were founded during the time of the Gold Rush in the 1890s and served the prospectors as stations on their way to Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie.

With Coolgardie the first of the famous gold mining towns is reached. The city had its heyday after the first discovery of gold in 1892 by Arthur Bayley and William Ford, who found 15.7 kg gold first. Having already almost became a ghost town after a few years, it is once again a popular destination for tourists. In the Coolgardie Coolgardie - Esperance Highway branches ( N94 ) ​​from the south. The Great Eastern Highway runs another 40 km towards the northeast until it reaches Kalgoorlie, where he meets the Goldfields Highway ( R94 / ALT94 ) ​​and ends. In this area, he wears the number R94. The history of Kalgoorlie is similar to the Cool Gardies, but the population and declining importance was never so dramatic as Kalgoorlie is closer to the gold fields and is to this day still supply center of the nearby opencast mine.

Numbering

  • Victoria Park (Perth ) to the junction of the Great Northern Highway in Midland (Perth )
  • From the junction of the Great Northern Highway in Midland (Perth ) to the intersection with the Roe Highway in Midvale (Perth )
  • Victoria Park (Perth ) to the junction of the Great Eastern Highway Bypass in Ascot (Perth ) and from the intersection with the Roe Highway in Midvale (Perth ) to the junction of the Coolgardie - Esperance Highway in Coolgardie
  • 94 from the junction of the Coolgardie - Esperance Highway at Coolgardie to Kalgoorlie

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. Pp. 82 83

  • Road in Western Australia
Graham Farmer Freeway Tonkin Highway Northam (Western Australia) Avon River (Western Australia) Mortlock River Merredin, Western Australia Southern Cross (Western Australia) Coolgardie, Western Australia Coolgardie–Esperance Highway Swan River (Western Australia) Albany, Western Australia William Ford (prospector) Surface mining
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