Lyell Highway
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Tasmania
The Lyell Highway is a road in the south of the Australian state of Tasmania, which runs from Hobart via Queenstown to Strahan. Her name is from Mount Lyell, a mountain in the West Coast Range in Queenstown, is derived. There was one late 19th century copper ore, its degradation led to the founding of the city of Queenstown.
Course
From Hobart to the central highlands
The highway begins in Granton, a northern suburb of Hobart on the southern shore of the Derwent River. It leads upstream to the west to New Norfolk, where they crossed the river. There, the Glenora Road ( B62 ) on the south bank and the Boyer Road ( B10) are connected to the northern bank. From there, the Lyell Highway runs northwest through the hill country after Rosegarland where the Gordon River Road branches off to the west, and on to Hamilton. A few kilometers outside the city branches off towards the north, the Hollow Tree Road ( B110 ) to Bothwell, which then on the Lake Highway ( A5) and continues up to Launceston.
Due to the central highlands
Still on the northern shore of the Derwent River, the road continues to the northwest, crosses the River Clyde, the Ouse River near the village of Ouse and the River Dee and results in the former center of the dam construction, Wayatinah.
When the highway was built, it followed earlier slopes and roads in Victoria Valley just north of Ouse, left the valley of the River Derwent and Ouse River and climbed the hill country through the cities Osterley, Victoria Valley and Dee before them on the path of today's highways attributed with Brontë. This route led along the Dee Lagoon and close to several other lakes, including Lake Echo, over. Today's road there is narrow and not paved. When the dam projects have been extended to mid -1940s, reached the settlement Tarraleah, the highway was realigned and now leads along the Derwent River to Tarraleah, so that the dam construction could be better achieved with large trucks. At Tarraleah the road leaves the gorge of the River Derwent in a steep ramp to the north to meet again on the old track at Brontë.
In Brontë Highway turn again to the northwest and the Marlborough Highway ( B11) branches off to the north towards Great Lake, where he meets the Lake Highway. This road is very exposed and may not be driven in wintry road conditions.
A common trip is the 14 - Mile Road ( C601 ), a dirt road that crosses the Nive Plains just behind Tarraleah. It first performs the steep Tarraleah Gorge and take a few kilometers behind Brontë back on the highway. Recommended this shortcut is not, because the road is narrow, unpaved and is often used by long timber transporters.
In wintry conditions is on the entire route through the central highlands danger of black ice, particularly in the densely wooded section west of the Ouse, but you have to count on the entire route to the west coast with icy roads. Snowy is the highway almost every winter, usually in the area. Around Derwent Bridge, which can lead to occasional blocking the connection for a few days This applies to both the new route via Tarraleah as well as for the old route over Osterley - Lake Echo - Dee. The risk of heavy snowfall is also the reason for the high reflector posts along certain sections of this road.
At the entrance to the Derwent Bridge Road St. Clair performs exactly between the Lake to the north and Lake King William in the south through.
For West Coast
These are the sections of road west of Derwent Bridge and Mount King William. The highway runs through the Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, through the West Coast Range and reached Queenstown.
Just west of Derwent Bridge rises the road in many tight curves on the eastern slopes of Mount Arrowsmith. This section applies very accident prone.
Only in the 1930s gave the highway to Queenstown and then was not even paved. On postcards from the 1940s and 1950s, it is called West Coast Road. Special care is required on the final steep descent to Queenstown, as the road is not only potentially there is ice and snow covered, but also narrow and very curvy.
Due to its altitude, this section of the highway is closed over the plateau between Derwent Bridge and Mount King William in winter often because of ice and snow.
In the regulation of the King River and the emergence of Lake Burbury the road was realigned to the narrowest point of the reservoir, which you could build a bridge at Bradshaw.
West of Queenstown leads the Lyell Highway on the western slopes of Mount Lyell about 3 km to the northwest, where the Zeehan Highway ( still A10) is connected. From there he runs into many curves in the Valley of the King River westwards down the west coast and eventually reached Strahan on Macquarie Harbour, where the Henty Road ( B27) connects to the north. In the latter, 41 km section of the Lyell Highway is numbered B24.
Swell
- Blainey, Geoffrey: The Peaks of Lyell, 6th edition, St. David 's Park Publishing, Hobart, 2000, ISBN 0-7246-2265-9. .
- Charles Whitham: Western Tasmania: A Land of Riches and Beauty.
- Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4. pp. 58-59
- Road in Tasmania