Lasseter Highway
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Northern Territory
The Lasseter Highway is a highway in the south of the Australian Northern Territory. As part of the Red Centre Way it is 288 km long, fully paved, runs in east-west direction and connects the Stuart Highway to the Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park -. Because it offers the best developed approach to this tourist destination, it is more of buses and cars to drive onto of Road Trains.
The name of the highway goes back to the prospector Harold Lasseter ( 1880-1931 ).
Course
The Lasseter Highway begins in Erldunda, a town with Roadhouse and Hotel, on the Stuart Highway ( N87 ). This connects Darwin in the north to Adelaide in the south of the Australian continent, providing good road access to the Lasseter Highway.
From Erldunda from the Lasseter Highway leading towards the west on the southern edge of Graves Range along. After about 110 km, in the Kernot Range, flows from the north coming a Luritja the Road ( S3). The Luritja Road, together with the Ernest Giles Road, the southern entrance to the Watarrka National Park and Kings Canyon.
A further 25 km towards the southwest is a picnic area, known as Mount Conner Lookout. It provides a view of Mount Conner, a 300 m high Table Mountain in the outback south of the road. 22 km away is the Curtin Springs Station, a cattle ranch with Roadhouse.
More about 100 km west of the Lasseter Highway reaches the town of Yulara. It is a tourist village, founded in the 1980s to tourists who visit the Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park, to better serve and provide more amenities to.
From Yulara of it is about 3 km to the National Park and another 5 km to the fork in the road that leads to 10 km from Uluru (Ayers Rock) or 43 km further west Kata Tjuta ( The Olgas ). The Olgas the Lasseter Highway ends. From there, continue west leads the Great Central Road, a dirt road, which is called in the Northern Territory also Tjukaruru Road and runs along the north side of the Petermann Ranges along the border of Western Australia.
The highest point in the course of the highway is at 521 m, the lowest 415 m.
Stations
Stations are located in Erldunda (km 0), in Mount Ebenezer (km 57) ( currently ( August 2012) to indefinitely closed) in Curtin Springs ( 159 km ) and Yulara (km 245).
Source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. page 100