Peak Downs Highway

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Queensland

The Peak Downs Highway is a highway in Queensland, Australia. It has a length of 264 km and runs in northeast-southwest direction of Mackay on the east coast of Australia to the Gregory Developmental Road north of Clermont. He connects the Whitsunday Coast with the Midwest Queensland.

The highway is notorious as particularly dangerous because to him the entire freight traffic between the port city of Mackay and the coal mines in the Bowen Basin, is settled. Frequently encountered in heavy transport of construction vehicles, bulldozers or tires.

The highest point in the course of the highway is 411 m and the lowest at 13 m.

Source

  • Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007, ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4, pp. 10f.
Department of Transport and Main Roads Bruce Highway Mackay (Queensland) Gregory Highway Clermont (Queensland)
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