Landsborough Highway

Landsborough Highway Queensland

Landsborough Highway (green on black)
General information
Type	Highway
Length	1,028 km (639 mi)
Route number(s)	National Highway A2
Former route number	National Highway 66 National Highway 71
Major junctions
NW end	Barkly Highway, Cloncurry, Queensland
	Flinders Highway Kennedy Developmental Road Capricorn Highway Mitchell Highway
SE end	Warrego Highway, Morven, Queensland
Location(s)
Major settlements	Winton, Longreach, Barcaldine, Blackall, Augathella
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Queensland

Landsborough Highway is a western Queensland highway running in the northwest-southeast direction from Morven to Cloncurry.^[1] The Landsborough Highway runs through vast tracts of land that was once occupied by William Landsborough, an Australian explorer of the 19th century. It is also the central part of the tourist route known as the Matilda Highway after the popular Australian song Waltzing Matilda, which extends from Bourke in central northern New South Wales to Karumba on the Gulf of Carpentaria.^[2]

The entire highway is an important part of the National Highway system linking Darwin and Brisbane: formerly National Route 66 (Cloncurry to Barcaldine) and National Route 71 (Barcaldine to Augathella), Queensland began to convert to the alphanumeric system much of Australia had adopted in the early-2000s and is now designated as National Route A2.^[3] Its importance also stems from the fact that it is the only sealed link between Flinders Highway and Capricorn Highway apart from Gregory Development Road between Emerald and Charters Towers.

The highway services an important sheep and cattle grazing region, tourist traffic and local properties. The highway is fully sealed but with many sections of substandard width and quality. It is also flood-prone with lengthy closures during floods.

Towns

Towns along the highway are listed below:

References

↑ Queensland Government - Department of Transport and Main Roads - Maps
↑ "Queensland's Outback - Matilda Highway". outbackholidays.info. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
↑ Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. pp. 8–16/17. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.

Road infrastructure in Queensland

Motorways	Airport Link Bruce Highway Clem Jones Tunnel Centenary Motorway Gateway Motorway Inner City Bypass Ipswich Motorway Legacy Way Logan Motorway Pacific Motorway (Brisbane – Brunswick Heads) Port of Brisbane Motorway Smith Street Motorway Sunshine Motorway Western Freeway

National highways	Barkly Highway Bruce Highway Cunningham Highway Gore Highway Landsborough Highway Leichhardt Highway New England Highway Warrego Highway

Highways	Balonne Highway Barwon Highway Brisbane Valley Highway Burnett Highway Bunya Highway Capricorn Highway Captain Cook Highway Carnarvon Highway Castlereagh Highway D'Aguilar Highway Dawson Highway Donohue Highway Flinders Highway Gold Coast Highway Gregory Highway Isis Highway Kennedy Highway Leichhardt Highway Mitchell Highway Moonie Highway Mount Lindesay Highway Mulligan Highway Outback Highway Palmerston Highway Peak Downs Highway Wide Bay Highway

Developmental roads / Outback tracks	Bamaga Road (Telegraph Road) Birdsville Track Burke Developmental Road Bulloo Developmental Road Cooper Developmental Road Diamantina Developmental Road Gregory Developmental Road Gulf Developmental Road Kennedy Developmental Road Peninsula Developmental Road Savannah Way

Proposals	Bruce Highway Upgrade Mackay Ring Road Toowoomba Second Range Crossing Townsville Ring Road Kenmore Bypass

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Landsborough Highway

Towns

See also

References