Strzelecki Track

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South Australia

The Strzelecki Track is an unpaved outback slope in the northeast of the Australian state of South Australia. It combines the Copley Lyndhurst Road in Lyndhurst with the Adventure Way in Innamincka.

History

The name Strzelecki Track is derived from the same desert and the same stream that accompany the Outbackpiste. It goes back to the Polish explorer Paul Edmund de Strzelecki.

The Australian cattle thief and folk hero Harry Redford, the 459 km long connecting first used in 1870 to drive a 600 to 1000 large herd of cattle from Queensland to South Australia to Blanche Water cattle station in order to sell them. The ruins of this station can be seen from the Strzelecki Track from.

Course

In Lyndhurst, the slope branches of the Bamdioota Road ( B83 ) to the east and runs along the northern edge of the northern Flinders Ranges along. She crosses several streams. After 80 km one track branches to Mount Freeling to the east, while the Strzelecki Track continues its way north and crosses the Dingo Fence. A little later he is once again returning to the east, passing through the Lake Blanche in the Southeast and Lake Callabonna in the northwest and turns again towards the north.

From there, from the slopes of the Strzelecki Creek accompanied by the same desert to the north and crossed it at Strzelecki Crossing. 10 km east of the settlement Merty Merty hits a slope of the Cameron Corner on the Strzelecki Track. From this point on the road followed earlier on the creek, but now leads directly to the north where it opens up di oil and gas fields at Moomba. In Moomba the road bends sharply to the east, crossing the Strzelecki Creek and the Old Strzelecki Track again and also opens up the gas field at Della. The last 50 km leads the Strzelecki Track north again through the Innamincka Regional Reserve, a state reserve.

In the Innamincka Strezelecki ending track. The Cordillo Downs track continues on his way to the north, while the Adventure Way exceeds the nearby border to Queensland to the east. The Coongie track leads to the northwest

Road Conditions

The road is unsecured along its length. Although not recommended, it can be driven in dry weather by normal vehicles nowadays.

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. p. 73

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