Augusta Highway
Appearance
Augusta Highway | |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 211 km (131 mi)[1] |
Gazetted | 2011[2] |
Route number(s) | National Highway A1 |
Major junctions | |
South end | Port Wakefield Road (National Highway A1), Port Wakefield |
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North end |
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Location(s) | |
Major settlements | Snowtown, Crystal Brook, Port Pirie, Port Germein |
Highway system | |
The Augusta Highway is the part of Australia's ring route (Highway 1) located in South Australia between Port Wakefield and Port Augusta. It was named Augusta Highway in 2011, and was formerly known simply as Highway One[2] and also as the Princes Highway, despite not being continuous to the Princes Highway in the southeast of the state.
Major intersections
LGA[3] | Location[3] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Wakefield Regional Council | Port Wakefield | 0 | 0.0 | Port Wakefield Road – Adelaide | |
0 | 0.0 | Port Wakefield–Auburn Road (B84) – Auburn | |||
2 | 1.2 | Copper Coast Highway (B85) – Kadina, South Australia | main route between Adelaide and Yorke Peninsula | ||
Lochiel | 31 | 19 |
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Snowtown | 47 | 29 | Barunga Gap Road – Bute and Kadina | ||
49 | 30 | Condowie Plain Road – Brinkworth and Blyth | |||
Port Pirie Regional Council | Merriton | 90 | 56 | Clements Road – Port Broughton | |
Crystal Brook | 95 | 59 | Venning Road – Crystal Brook, Gladstone | southern entrance to Crystal Brook | |
102 | 63 | Goyder Highway (B64) | northern entrance to Crystal Brook | ||
Warnertown | Wilkins Highway (B79) – Laura, Gladstone | ||||
Bungama | 120 | 75 | Warnertown Road – Port Pirie | southern entrance to Port Pirie | |
Napperby | 124 | 77 | Spencer Highway (B89) | northern entrance to Port Pirie | |
Mount Remarkable | Port Germein | 142 | 88 | – Port Germein | |
143 | 89 | Germein Gorge Road – Murray Town | |||
Port Augusta | Winninowie | 188 | 117 | Horrocks Pass Road/Main North Road (B56) | |
Stirling North | 202 | 126 | Flinders Ranges Way (B83) | ||
Port Augusta | 211 | 131 | Eyre Highway (National Highway A1) – Eyre Peninsula and Western Australia | ||
211 | 131 | Stuart Highway (National Highway A87) – the Outback and Northern territory | |||
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References
- ^ a b "Driving the Augusta Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- ^ a b "Highway One gets a change of name". Plains Producer. 19 August 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ a b A.J.Miazzo (16 December 2013). "Naming of State Rural Roads - Mid North" (PDF). Government of South Australia. Rack Plan 869. Retrieved 17 September 2014.