Illawarra Highway

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New South Wales

The Illawarra Highway is a highway in the southeast of the Australian state of New South Wales. He joins the Hume Highway at Sutton Forest with the Princes Highway, Albion Park ( Wollongong ). This link road was numbered R48.

Origin of the name

The street was named after the region they pervades, the Illawarra, named.

Course

The road branches west of Sutton Forest on Hume Highway ( N31 ​​) to the east. Through the town of Moss Vale it leads to the Macquarie Pass, she overcomes steep and with many hairpin curves. For heavy goods vehicles the Illawarra Highway is inappropriate. At the pass we find the furthest south to subtropical rainforest in Australia.

Finally, the highway ends at the Princes Highway (R1 ) in Albion Park, south of Wollongong.

Typical of the route are the nearby national parks, such as the Macquarie Pass National Park, Morton National Park and the Budderoo National Park, as well as the small country town with intact buildings from the 19th century, Moss Vale, ' Robertson ''.

Major intersections and connections

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