Murray Valley Highway
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Victoria, New South Wales
The Murray Valley Highway is a highway in Victoria, Australia. It runs for about 670 km in a northwest-southeast direction and follows the course of the Murray River and the border between New South Wales and Victoria.
Course
The Murray Valley Highway got its official start in the town of Robinvale in north-western Victoria, about 80 kilometers south-east of Mildura. He begins on the bridge, which crosses the Murray River. From there, there is an approximately two- kilometer access road to Euston, where connection is made to the Sturt Highway. This connecting road is often referred to as an extension or part of the Murray Valley Highway.
Until a few years of the start of the Murray Valley Highway was still about 60 kilometers to the west, in the village of Hattah, where he teed by the Calder Highway.
Today, the Murray Valley Highway takes from Robinvale from its course toward the southeast. After about 140 kilometers of the highway reaches the town of Swan Hill. Swan Hill is the second largest city in the course of the Murray River and the center of the wine growing region of the same name.
60 km to the southeast lies Kerang, where the Loddon Valley Highway branches off to the south. The Murray Valley Highway follows the further reaches of the Murray River, until he reached Echuca. In Echuca crosses the Cobb Highway in New South Wales in the Murray River in the north and continues as Northern Highway south to Melbourne. Echuca is known for the World in Wax, an exhibition of wax figures, the National Holden Motor Museum and its port, run from which even today paddle steamer in scheduled service.
The nearest major town on the Murray Valley Highway Cobram is 100 kilometers to the east. Cobram is an important center for the processing of milk in Australia and headquarters of two major dairy companies that handle about 35% of milk in Australia. 50 km further east is Yarrawonga on the Murray Valley Highway, was dammed in the vicinity of the Murray River at Mulwala Lake.
After Rutherglen with a gold mining town from the 1850s happened, reached the Murray Valley Highway Wodonga, the last major city in its course. Before Wodonga Hume Highway, which connects Sydney and Melbourne crosses. A few miles beyond Wodongo the Murray River was dammed to Lake Hume. This serves as a water reservoir for irrigation of agricultural land during the summer and to generate electricity through an integrated in the dam hydroelectric plant.
On the shores of Lake Hume, about 40 kilometers southeast of Wodonga the Murray Valley Highway passes through the town of Tallangatta before 80 km further east reaches its end in Corryong. To the east of Corryong is the Murray Valley Highway continued in Alpine Way, which leads into the Kosciusko National Park.
Major intersections and connections
Source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. pp. 46-49
- Street in Victoria
- Road in New South Wales