Hume Highway

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States:

New South Wales Victoria

In the first decades after the beginning of the colonization of Australia by British settlers, the hinterland has been little explored. The main reason was the Great Dividing Range, which in those days was an almost insurmountable obstacle. So it took until 1818 until a way over the Great Dividing Range is found, which led from Sydney near the Goulburn today.

1824 were the explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell, who undertook a journey of discovery and exploration of Campbelltown to Port Phillip Bay, the natural harbor of Melbourne. The expedition of Hume and Hovell contributed significantly to the development and colonization of the hinterland. The course of the present Hume Highway essentially corresponds exactly to that route that took the two explorers at that time.

The first street which initially led only to Goulburn was then known as the Great South Road. 1833 saw the first extensive building work and it took until the 1860s, until the entire track was first completed as a continuous paved road. This road was in New South Wales is still the name of the Great South Road. In Victoria, she was known as Sydney Road. Only in 1928 the entire route was renamed in honor of the explorer Hamilton Hume in Hume Highway.

Today the Hume Highway is mostly declared Freeway and expanded from a few kilometers to four lanes almost its entire length.

Course

New South Wales

The Hume Highway begins at the junction of the Westlink (M7 ) with the South Western Motorway (Met -5) in the southern suburb of Casula Sydney. It runs south through Campbell Town to Mittagong. He turns to the southwest and from the city of Goulburn to the west. Behind Goulburn branches of the Federal Highway ( N23 ) from the southwest and just before Yass the Barton Highway ( N25 ) to the south- southeast. Both trunk roads lead to Canberra, the Australian capital. In Jugiong the Hume Highway turn again to the southwest and crosses the south-east of Riverina Wagga Wagga until it reaches the Murray River in Albury and thus the border into Victoria.

Victoria

On the south bank of the Murray River runs through the Hume Highway, which is called from there Hume Freeway, the City of Wodonga and leads through rich farmland further to the southwest. After Wangaratta on the Ovens River and Benalla he reached the city of Goulburn River at Seymour, where he turns to the south. After another 70 km, the Western Ring Road ( NM80 ) is reached in Melbourne.

Bypasses

Up to three cities today all cities along the Hume Highway are passed through detours. The three remaining cities are Tarcutta, Holbrook and Woomargama, but these places are to receive up to 2012 detours.

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