Kamilaroi Highway
| Kamilaroi Highway | |
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Proposed  to replace [1] |
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| Length | 598 km (372 mi) |
| Direction | Northwest-Southeast |
| From |  Mitchell Highway / Kidman Way,Bourke, New South Wales |
| via | Brewarrina, Walgett, Cryon, Burren Junction, Wee Waa, Narrabri, Boggabri, Gunnedah, Curlewis, Breeza, Quirindi, Braefield |
| To |  New England Highway, Willow Tree, New South Wales |
| Allocation | Narrabri - Narrabri West:
 )Gunnedah West - Gunnedah:  ) |
| Major junctions |  Castlereagh Highway Newell Highway Oxley Highway |
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Kamilaroi Highway is a state highway in New South Wales. It has been given the national route number 37. Its status as a highway is fairly new.
It runs 620 km from Willow Tree on the New England Highway in central New South Wales in a north-western direction until it reaches Bourke on the Mitchell Highway. The Kamilaroi Highway offers the most direct route from the Great Divide to the Outback.[citation needed]
The highway is named after the Kamilaroi Indigenous Australian people who live in the area.
Five kilometres north of Boggabri is the spectacular landmark, Gin’s Leap, which was known in Cobb and Co coach days as "The Rock".
It is said that a young Aboriginal girl, promised to an elder of her tribe, the Kamilaroi, ran away with a young aboriginal man from another tribe. While being pursued by Kamilaroi tribesmen, the lovers jumped to their death from somewhere along the top of this rock.
[edit] List of towns and villages on the Kamilaroi Highway
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Alpha-Numeric Route Numbering for NSW. It is here!, Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website. Retrieved on 29 December 2007.
- Kamilaroi Highway website - website
- Kamilaroi Highway - Narrabri information website
