Mallee Highway

Mallee Highway
South Australia  Victoria
General information
Type Highway
Length 377 km (234 mi)
Route number(s)
  • B12 (1998-present)
    Entire route
Former
route number
  • National Route 12 (? - 1999)
    Entire route
Major junctions
West end
 
East end
Location(s)
Major settlements Lameroo, Pinnaroo, Ouyen, Manangatang
Highway system
Highways in Australia
National HighwayFreeways in Australia
Highways in South Australia
Highways in Victoria

The Mallee Highway[1][2][3] (formerly the Ouyen Highway in Victoria) is part of the shortest route between Adelaide and Sydney. It runs east from Tailem Bend in South Australia through cereal-growing farmland at the southern end of the Murray Mallee to Pinnaroo near the border with Victoria, where it crosses Pinaroo-Loxton and Pinaroo-Bordertown Road in Pinaroo. It continues in Victoria through Ouyen, where it crosses the Calder Highway (the old Ouyen Highway terminated at the Calder Highway and never proceeded east), and Piangil, where it crosses the Murray Valley Highway.

Route B12, however continues past the Mallee Highway terminus along the Murray Valley Highway for two kilometres north of Piangil, linking to Tooleybuc Road where it continues until it crosses the New South Wales border and the Murray River at Tooleybuc. The road then continues to Balranald, at the Murrumbidgee River (without the B12 designation). Tooleybuc Road terminates at the Sturt Highway which continues en route to Sydney via the Hume Highway or Mid-Western Highway.

Major Intersections and Towns

LGALocationkmmiDestinationsNotes
The CoorongTailem Bend00 Dukes HighwayBordertown, Melbourne / Tailem Bend, Adelaide100 km from Adelaide
Moorlands149Old Dukes Highway – Coomandook
Southern MalleeLameroo9962
Pinnaroo13383 Ngarkat HighwayBordertown, Naracoorte
13986 Browns Well HighwayLoxton, Renmark
SA / Vic State Border
MilduraMurrayville166103
Boinka207129
Underbool226140
Walpeup246153Walpeup-Patchewollock Road – Patchewollock, Hopetoun
Ouyen274170Ouyen-Patchewollock Road – Patchewollock, Hopetoun
275.7171.3Calder HighwayBallarat, Bendigo, Melbourne
275.8171.4Calder HighwayRed Cliffs, Mildura
Swan HillManangatang331206Robinvale–Sea Lake Road – Robinvale, Sea Lake
Piangil372231Murray Valley HighwaySwan Hill, Melbourne
374232Murray Valley HighwayRobinvale, Sydney
Murray River376234Vic / NSW border
BalranaldBalranald Sturt HighwayMildura / Sydney
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. Mallee Highway Touring Route, Design Train. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.
  2. National Routes - Interstate Links, Main Roads Victoria. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.
  3. B12 Mallee Highway, Ozroads. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.

External links

Media related to Mallee Highway at Wikimedia Commons


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