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  Mallee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
From here the mallee scrub tenaciously clings to the edges of the highway, threatening to invade the red soil of cleared fields on either side, and the equally red dust of the unsealed road.
Heading west on the Mallee Highway, the access track to the picturesque pink salt lakes of the Murray–Sunset (Yanga–Nyawi) National Park leads north from Linga.
Continuing north on the Calder Highway from Ouyen, you pass the Hattah–Kulkyne National Park, just east of the highway; the park consists of dry mallee scrub, native woodland, and a lakes system lined with gums.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/victoria/mallee.asp   (458 words)

  
 Sturt Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sturt Highway is the main highway route between Sydney and Adelaide.
The Sturt Highway commences at its junction with the Hume Highway near Gundagai south west of Sydney.
The Sturt highway is proposed to be extended by 22 km from Gawler southwest to meet Port Wakefield Road at Waterloo Corner as part of the AusLink project creating a new road known as the Northern Expressway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sturt_Highway   (461 words)

  
 Southern Malleee District Council - Welcome
Southern Mallee District is located approximately 2 hours drive east of the South Australian capital city of Adelaide.
These towns are located adjacent to the Mallee Highway, which is the shortest travelling route between Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney.
The district was first farmed in the late part of the 1800's, however it was not until 1906, that viable farming activities came into existence because of the introduction of rail services and pioneering families moved into the district and permanently settled.
www.southernmallee.sa.gov.au   (284 words)

  
 Ozroads: National Highway 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
National Highway 8 is the former designation for the Dukes Highway in SA and the Western Highway in VIC.
The Dukes Highway was included in the great plan initiated by D.V Fleming (first SA Commissioner for Highways) in 1925 to reconstruct and seal all of SA's major roads but nothing was commenced prior to the war.
The highway was officially 'opened' on 4 February 1987 at a ceremony in Bordertown.
www.ozroads.com.au /SA/Old/8/8.htm   (845 words)

  
 Mallee Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Mallee Highway (formerly the Ouyen Highway on the Victoria side) 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 route B57 (from Bordertown to Loxton).
It continues in Victoria through Ouyen, where it crosses the Calder Highway A79 (the old Ouyen Highway finished here and never proceeded east), and Piangil, where it crosses the Murray Valley Highway B400.
Two kilometres north of Piangil, another separate road crosses the New South Wales border and the Murray River at Tooleybuc and links to Balranald, where the Sturt Highway (National Route 20) crosses the Murrumbidgee River.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Mallee_Highway   (172 words)

  
 Push on for Loddon Mallee Highway revamp. 20 April 2006. Bendigo News
A push has started for the upgrading of the Loddon Mallee Highway between Bendigo and Kerang.
Cr Rogers says the change would mean a widening of the highway, and possibly an increase in the speed limit to 110 kilometres an hour.
He says horticultural development and projects such as the planned ethanol plant will lead to an increase in heavy vehicles on the highway.
www.abc.net.au /news/australia/vic/bendigo/200604/s1619893.htm   (173 words)

  
 Ouyen one of the largest towns Mallee area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
With around 1550 people, Ouyen is one of the largest towns of the Mallee area, the last region of Victoria to be settled.
The town is located at the intersection of the Mallee Highway (Adelaide-Sydney) and the Calder Highway (Melbourne-Mildura) and is a transport and service centre for a vast area occupied by agricultural and pastoral properties.
Hopetoun is a small town of about 790 people in the Mallee and is the main gateway to the Wyperfield National Park.
www.totaltravel.com.au /travel/vic/murrayoutback/themallee/guide/ouyen   (370 words)

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