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6 unusual facts about Stuart Highway


Bon Bon Reserve

Bon Bon Reserve is a 2168 km2 nature reserve in South Australia, lying between the Great Victoria Desert and the Eyre Peninsula and bisected by the Stuart Highway.

Elliott District Community Government Council

It was centred around the town of Elliott, 254 km north of Tennant Creek and 419 km south of Katherineon the Stuart Highway.

Lake Woods

It lies on Newcastle Creek close to the small town of Elliott on the Stuart Highway, about halfway between Darwin and Alice Springs.

Stuart Highway

In 1994 the first and only Cannonball Run in Australia ran from Darwin to Yulara and back again.

The Breakaways Reserve

The Breakaways Reserve or just simply The Breakaways, is a large national reserve found in northern South Australia, just off the Stuart Highway near Coober Pedy.

Woomera, South Australia

Easements through the WPA allows public transit on the Trans-Australian Railway, the Central Australian Railway, the Stuart Highway, and the Coober Pedy-William Creek Road.


Coolalinga, Northern Territory

The new complex is located on the eastern side of the Stuart Highway and will service the rural suburbs of Litchfield Shire and the under construction residential suburbs at Palmerston East.

MacDonald Airfield

MacDonald Airfield was an airfield built alongside the former northern road, west of Stuart Highway, north of Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia during World War II.

Princes Highway

From Port Wakefield it continues as the "Augusta Highway", and follows the coast, skirting Port Pirie to continue on to Port Augusta, where it terminates at the intersection of the Eyre Highway and Stuart Highway.

Tennant Creek

It is the fifth largest town in the Northern Territory and it is located on the Stuart Highway, just south of the intersection with the western terminus of the Barkly Highway.


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