Kamilaroi Highway

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New South Wales

The Kamilaroi Highway is a highway in the north of the Australian state of New South Wales. It connects the New England Highway at Willow Tree with the Mitchell Highway and the Kidman Way in Bourke. The only recently designated as a National Road 37 Road was formerly known as State Road 29.

Naming

The highway is named after living in the area Aboriginesstamm the Kamilaroi.

Course

North of Willow Tree in the Liverpool Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, branches of the Kamilaroi Highway from the New England Highway (N15 ) from the northwest and crosses little later, the city Quirindi. Along the Namoi River describes the road bends to the west, where it crosses the cities of Gunnedah, Boggabri, Narrabri and Wee Waa. In Gunnedah it crosses the Oxley Highway ( R34) and the Newell Highway in Narrabri ( N39 ). In Walgett on the Barwon River it crosses the Castlereagh Highway ( R55 ).

Along the Barwon River for the Kamilaroi Highway further west through Brewarrina and at the confluence of the Barwon River and Culgoa River to the Darling River over to Bourke Darling River. He ends on Mitchell Highway ( R71 ) and at the Kidman Way ( S87 ).

Thus, the Kamilaroi Highway is the shortest connection between the Great Dividing Range and the outback of New South Wales.

The Rock

5 km north of Boggabri is a spectacular landmark, Gin 's Leap, who was known only as The Rock in the times of Postkutschenbetriebers Cobb and Co..

A legend tells that a Aboriginesmädchen that was promised to the tribal elders of the Kamilaroi, eloped with a young man from another tribe. The persecution by the Kamilaroi the lovers escaped by a fatal jump from this rock.