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	Charles Sturt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1828 the Governor of New South Wales, Ralph Darling sent Sturt and Hamilton Hume to explore the area of the Macquarie River in western New South Wales.
		Sturt later undertook a second expedition to reach the centre of Australia, but his health broke down in the extreme conditions and he was forced to abandon the attempt.
		He is commemorated by the municipality of Charles Sturt in Adelaide, Charles Sturt University in regional New South Wales, and the Sturt Highway (see also Sturt Highway) from Mildura to Adelaide.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Sturt (705 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 named after Charles Sturt, who explored south western New South Wales, the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers and also parts of the deserts of central Australia in the 1820s and 1830s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sturt_Highway (326 words)

	Charles Sturt biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Captain Charles Sturt (April 28, 1795 - June 16, 1869), Australian explorer, was born in India and joined the British Army as a young man, seeing action with the Duke of Wellington in Spain and at Waterloo.
		Sturt prooposed to travel down the Murrumbidgee River, whose upper reaches had been seen by the Hume and Hovell expedition.
		In 1834 Sturt began farming on land granted to him by the New South Wales government near Mittagong.
	charles-sturt.biography.ms (551 words)

	Australian Towns, Cities & Highways: Sturt Highway
		The Sturt Highway is one of the premier east-west routes in South Australia, linking Adelaide with the Riverland as well as the eastern states.
		The highway is named after Charles Sturt, the explorer and navigator who was the first to travel the Murray-Darling-Murrumbidgee River network from NSW to the Murray Mouth in South Australia.
		Eastbound on the Sturt Highway from the Barrier Hwy interchange, Gawler (2001).
	www.hotkey.net.au /~krool/photos/sa/sturt.html (659 words)

	Hume Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		64% of this section of the Highway is only two or three lanes wide compared to the rest of the highway, of which is mostly four or five lanes wide.
		The decline in the standard of the Hume Highway near the Victorian border is marked.
		NRMA estimates that $1 billion is needed to upgrade the southern section of the Hume Highway.
	www.mynrma.com.au /saferroads/HumeHighway.asp (332 words)

	Sturt Highway -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Sturt Highway is the main (A major road for any form of motor transport) highway route between (The largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port) Sydney and (The state capital of South Australia) Adelaide.
		The highway carries the route number National Highway A20 in (A state in south central Australia) South Australia and (A waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally) Victoria, and National 20 in (An Australian state in southeastern Australia) New South Wales.
		The highway crosses the Murrumbidgee at (Click link for more info and facts about Balranald) Balranald having followed that river for much of the route from the Hume Highway, and (Click link for more info and facts about crosses the Murray) crosses the Murray a total of four times:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/sturt_highway.htm (464 words)

	The World Today Archive - Sturt Highway blocked by SA Police
		This is an operation we're running on the Sturt Highway at the moment, called Operation Safe Passage.
		And the highway has also previously been described by some police, as a major route for drug trafficking between South Australia and the Eastern States.
		KIM ZANDER: If I can stop one person being killed on the Sturt Highway by education and by a slight inconvenience under an authority under the Road Traffic Act and Motor Vehicles Act, that I see that as a positive benefit.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s361064.htm (442 words)

	Media release - About Us - MyNRMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All of the worst flspots on the Sturt Highway are located in Wagga Wagga and should be at the top of any federal plans to upgrade the road, according to an NRMA audit released today.
		The survey considered the Sturt Highway between the Hume near Tarcutta and the Victorian border, cutting through towns including Balranald, Hay and Wagga Wagga.
		Mr Steele said the best performing link of the highway, based on road safety history was identified as the section from Hay to Balranald, with crash and casualty rates 88 per cent and 72 per cent below the route average.
	www.mynrma.com.au /advertisewithus/releases2003_42.asp (382 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		National Route 16 is a 2km route linking the Sturt Highway (NH20) near Euston to the Murray Valley Highway (B400) in Robinvale, Victoria.
		The entire 2km in NSW is 2-lane rural highway, connecting to Victoria via the one-lane Robinvale Bridge.
		National Route 16 was proclaimed in 1955, at the dawn of the National Route system, from Sturt Highway to Corryong, via Murray Valley Hwy through the towns of Robinvale, Swan Hill, Echuca, Yarrawonga, Wodonga and Walwa.
	www.freewebs.com /ozroadsnswnationalroute16 (249 words)

	Sturt Hwy
		The Sturt Highway begins at the Victorian border where the highway crosses the Murray River at Mildura.
		From there the highway passes through the fruit growing areas of Euston across to Balranald, where the road crosses and follows the Murrumbidgee River through the Hay Plains to Hay, Narrandera and Wagga Wagga.
		The Sturt Hwy/Hume Hwy interchange, with the Hume Hwy continuing in the distance (2002).
	www.hotkey.net.au /~krool/photos/nsw/sturthwy.htm (326 words)

	"Adelaide to Sydney map" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the junction of the Newell and Sturt Highways on the Murrumbidgee River.
		It is 56km from the Junction with the Hume Highway from Melbourne to Sydney.
		From Wagga Wagga, the road joins the Hume Highway and travels through Gundagai and Yass to the turn off to Canberra and the A.C.T. the direct route by-passes canberra and continues through the large town of Goulburn and the Southern Highlands to Campbelltown and on to Sydney.
	www.wilmap.com.au /stripmaps/sturt.html (346 words)

	Driving behaviour improves on Sturt Highway. 25 May 2004. Renmark News
		In the joint operation with Barossa and Elizabeth police breath tested 1,500 drivers, issued 132 on-the-spot fines for speeding and seatbelts and reported 10 drivers for being unregistered or unlicensed.
		Senior constable Trevor Marshall says while the number of fatal accidents on the notorious highway has dropped dramatically in recent years, drink driving is still a worry.
		"In that operation we detected I think it was eight drink drivers on the Sturt Highway and one of the readings was up near 0.2 and that's always a concern," he said.
	www.abc.net.au /news/australia/sa/renmark/200405/s1115402.htm (193 words)

	drug_route_6_5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		About 370kg of cannabis has been seized in the past five years from vehicles using the Sturt Highway.
		Last week, 30 cases of alleged drug smuggling from South Australia were heard at a court in the small Riverina town of Hay, 250km east of Mildura.
		In January, SA police said that in a bid to identify drug couriers they were compiling a list of drivers who frequently use the Sturt Highway.
	www.ozbiker.org /archived_news/may11/drug_route_6_5.htm (369 words)

	The Border Mail
		THE number of crashes on the Hume Highway in NSW has fallen in the past decade but more people are being killed and injured.
		The audit by the motoring group NRMA found casualty rates on the southern section of road between the Sturt Highway and the Victorian border were 60 per cent higher than on the remainder of the highway.
		The worst is the 146km stretch from the Sturt Highway to the Victorian border.
	www.bordermail.com.au /newsflow/pageitem?page_id=607253 (366 words)

	Wagga Wagga New South Wales Travel Guide Australia
		It comprises an area of around 500,000 hectares with a population on 55,000 and was first settled in the 1830's following an 1829 expedition of exploration to trace and chart the vast inland rivers system of the interior.
		Captain Charles Sturt, with George Macleay and six others followed the Murrumbidgee to its junction with the Murray River, near Mildura, and on to the mouth near Goolwa in South Australia.
		The Murray Cod Hatcheries and Fauna Park east of the city on the Sturt Highway is a major attraction and hires fishing tackle, has a kids fishing pond, and conducts fly-fishing lessons.
	time2travel.com /au/nsw/wagga (550 words)

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		The Hume Highway (31) is the inland route passing through Albury and Goulburn, and from Yass or Goulburn, the Barton and Federal Highways lead to Canberra.
		The Sturt Highway (20): Heads east from Adelaide skirting the Barossa Valley and passing through the Riverland towns of Berri and Renmark before crossing into Victoria and reaching Mildura.
		The Sturt Highway continues through Narrandera and Wagga Wagga to join the Hume Highway (31) between Adelaide and Melbourne.
	www.wilmap.com.au /AUSHWY.HTML (625 words)

	Narrow highway blamed for fatal semitrailer pile-up - National - www.smh.com.au
		The NRMA renewed its calls for a divided Hume Highway between the Sturt Highway turn-off and the Victorian border yesterday after three semitrailers collided and a man died.
		The NRMA's regional manager for south-eastern NSW, Ron Collins, said the highway, which was effectively the nation's number one traffic route, linking the two biggest cities, was not up to an acceptable standard.
		The highway south of the Sturt Highway turn-off, near Tarcutta, was divided in some sections but not all they way - which it should be, in view of the huge amount of freight traffic it had to carry.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/09/02/1093939070920.html?from=storyrhs (463 words)

	Information on Leslie Desmond Clinic in Adelaide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Silversand Natural Horse-Man-Ship Centre (Steve and Irena's place) is approximately a 1-hour drive north of Gawler on the Sturt Highway.
		From Gawler follow the Sturt Highway to Truro.
		Continue travelling on the Sturt Highway toward Blanchetown.
	www.lesliedesmond.com /venues/Blanchetown.asp (233 words)

	AusLink Network Corridors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		New England Highway to the Cunningham Highway and the Cunningham Highway from the New England Highway to the Ipswich Motorway
		Gawler Bypass from Main Road North to Sturt Highway, Sturt Highway from Adelaide to the Hume Highway and Hume Highway to Sydney
		Calder Freeway and Highway from the Western Ring Road and the Sturt Highway to Mildura
	www.auslink.gov.au /policy/overview/network/natnet_by_link.aspx (988 words)

	FACTSHEET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		the former National Highway system: the Sturt and Dukes highways, the South-Eastern Freeway, the Adelaide-Port Augusta Road, the Eyre Highway and the Stuart Highway;
		$4.3 million for access controls on Port Wakefield Road between the Salisbury Highway and Virginia.
		A $58 million upgrading programme for the Sturt Highway, including a realignment through the Truro Hills and improvements between Gawler and Paringa that will make the road safer and better able to serve communities in the Riverland
	www.dotrs.gov.au /auslink/sa.aspx (466 words)

	FACTSHEET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		the key urban corridors: Westlink (to replace the Cumberland Highway); the South Western Motorway connecting to General Holmes Drive to Sydney Airport and Foreshore Road to Port Botany; Roberts and King Georges Road to Chullora intermodal terminal; and the rail connections to Chullora and Port Botany.
		the former National Highway system: the Bruce Highway from Brisbane to Cairns, parts of the Cunningham and New England highways on the Brisbane-Sydney corridor, the Warrego, Gore and Leichhardt (part) highways on the Brisbane-Melbourne corridor, the Warrego, Landsborough, Flinders (part) and Barkly highways on the Brisbane-Darwin corridor, and the Ipswich and Caboolture motorways;
		the key urban corridors: the Roe, Leach and Tonkin highways, the Kwinana Freeway and possible Fremantle Eastern bypass, the links to Fremantle Port via the Stirling Highway, Queen Victoria Street, Beach Street and Tydeman and Port Beach roads; and rail links to Mundijong via Yangebup and to Kewdale intermodal terminal, Fremantle Port and Outer Harbour.
	www.dotrs.gov.au /auslink/nat_network.aspx (749 words)

	Mercury Motor Inn, Motel, Wagga Wagga
		Both evening meals and breakfast are available in either your room or in our Dining Room, pictured above.
		Conveniently located on the Sturt Highway, which is the main thoroughfare of Wagga Wagga.
		Conveniently located close to the Airport, to the RAAF base, Charles Sturt University and local wineries.
	www.tourisminternet.com.au /wwmerc.htm (283 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sturt Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Updated 251 days 21 hours 24 minutes ago.
		The highway crosses the Murrumbidgee at Balranald having followed the river for much of the route from the Hume Highway, and the Murray a total of four times:
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sturt-Highway (341 words)

	Worldisround - Sunrise/Sunsets in Australia - Australia photos
		A typical early morning sight when travelling along the Sturt Hightway..
		Victoria is a small town in the York Pen.
		Once again, along the Sturt Highway in Western Victoria, Aust.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/19600 (131 words)

	Leading from the Edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Use the Hume Highway and Sturt Highway to connect capital cities, with the Federal Highway for Canberra.
		The Olympic Highway joins Wagga Wagga to other regional centres throughout New South Wales.
		To coincide with the 2005 Public Galleries Summit, the staff of Charles Sturt University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts presents an exhibition of their contemporary and innovative practice.
	www.leadingfromtheedge.org.au /location.htm (1193 words)

	Australian Job Search - Harvest Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For information on Australian taxation system including online Tax File Numbers and associated details.
		Mildura is accessible by road via the Hume/Sturt Highway from Sydney, the Calder Highway from Melbourne, the Sturt Highway from Adelaide.
		The major coach lines operate daily services from Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide.
	www.jobsearch.gov.au /HarvestTrail/TownDetail.aspx?TownID=8&TextOnly=0 (647 words)

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