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State Strategic Touring Route
State Strategic Touring Routes (SSTR) are road routes in Queensland, Australia, which have been identified as significant to motoring tourists. These are the primary routes used by tourists as they provide the connections between popular tourist locations, and consequently have high volumes of tourist traffic. Standardised road signage is used to identify the route itself, with "Welcome to" signage at towns and districts of interest to tourists, as well as "turn off" signage to natural attractions. Licensed as CC BY 3.0 AU. SSTRs must meet criteria as to road quality and safety to be included. Roads used in SSTRs may be closed in some seasons, provided this information is made available to SSTRs users. Information for tourists travelling the route must be available either through Visitor/Tourist Information Centres or by signage at rest stops and points of interests. The identification of a route as an SSTR does not affect the naming and gazettal of the roads that make up the ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Strategic Touring Routes In Queensland, Australia
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Cairns
Cairns (, ) is a city in Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. The population in June 2019 was 153,952, having grown on average 1.02% annually over the preceding five years. The city is the 5th-most-populous in Queensland, and 15th in Australia. The city was founded in 1876 and named after Sir William Wellington Cairns, following the discovery of gold in the Hodgkinson river. Throughout the late 19th century, Cairns prospered from the settlement of Chinese immigrants who helped develop the region's agriculture. Cairns also served as a port for blackbirding ships, bringing slaves and indentured labourers to the sugar plantations of Innisfail. During World War II, the city became a staging ground for the Allied Forces in the Battle of the Coral Sea. By the late 20th century the city had become a centre of international tourism, and in the early 21st century has developed into a major metropolitan city. Cairns is a popular tourist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennant Creek
Tennant Creek ( wrm, Jurnkkurakurr) is town located in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is the seventh largest town in the Northern Territory, and is located on the Stuart Highway, just south of the intersection with the western terminus of the Barkly Highway. At the , Tennant Creek had a population of approximately 3,000, of which more than 50% (1,536) identified themselves as Indigenous. The town is approximately 1,000 kilometres south of the capital of the Northern Territory, Darwin, and 500 kilometres north of Alice Springs. It is named after a nearby watercourse of the same name, and is the hub of the sprawling Barkly Tableland – vast elevated plains of black soil with golden Mitchell grass, that cover more than 240,000 square kilometres. Tennant Creek is also near well-known attractions including the Devils Marbles, Mary Ann Dam, Battery Hill Mining Centre and the Nyinkka Nyunyu Culture Centre. The Barkly Tableland runs east from Tennant Creek towards the Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camooweal
Camooweal is an outback town and locality in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. The locality is on the Queensland border with the Northern Territory. In the , the locality of Camooweal had a population of 208 people. Geography The locality of Camooweal is in north-western in the Gulf Region bounded by the west by the Northern Territory. The town of Camooweal is located in the south-west corner of the locality. The town is north-west of the city of Mount Isa and east of the Northern Territory border. The Barkly Highway enters the locality from the south ( Barkly), passes from east to west through the town centre (where it is known as Barkly Street) and then exits to the west (Northern Territory). The Georgina River enters the locality from the west (Northern Territory), passes to the immediate west of the town and then exits to south of the locality (Barkly). Lake Francis () and Lake Canellan () are both on the Georgina River and lie to the south-east of the town. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Townsville
Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. With a population of 180,820 as of June 2018, it is the largest settlement in North Queensland; it is unofficially considered its capital. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. Townsville hosts a significant number of governmental, community and major business administrative offices for the northern half of the state. Part of the larger local government area of the City of Townsville, it is in the dry tropics region of Queensland, adjacent to the central section of the Great Barrier Reef. The city is also a major industrial centre, home to one of the world's largest zinc refineries, a nickel refinery and many other similar activities. As of December 2020, $30M operations to expand the Port of Townsville are underway, which involve channel widening and installation of a 70-tonne Liebherr Super Post Panamax Ship-to-Shore crane, to allow much larger cargo and passenger ships to utilise the port. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overlanders Way
The Overlanders Way is an Australian road route from Townsville in Queensland to Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. It has been designated by the Queensland Government as a State Strategic Touring Route. The route The route is via the Flinders Highway to Cloncurry, and then the Barkly Highway to Tennant Creek. Outback Queensland website The tourism organisation "Outback Queensland" has established a website titled "Overlanders Way" that provides some information about each of the following segments: * Townsville to Charters Towers (intersection with Gregory Highway (Great Inland Way)) * Charters Towers to Hughenden * Hughenden to Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States * Richmond, London, a part of London * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, ... * Richmond to Julia Creek * Julia Creek to Cloncurry (intersections with Landsborou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourke, New South Wales
Bourke is a town in the north-west of New South Wales, Australia. The administrative centre and largest town in Bourke Shire, Bourke is approximately north-west of the state capital, Sydney, on the south bank of the Darling River. it is also situated: * 137 kilometres south of Barringun and the Queensland - New South Wales Border * 256 kilometres (159 mi) south of Cunnamulla * 454 kilometres (282 mi) south of Charleville History The location of the current township of Bourke on a bend in the Darling River is the traditional country of the Ngemba people. The first European-born explorer to encounter the river was Charles Sturt in 1828 who named it after Sir Ralph Darling, Governor of New South Wales. Having struck the region during an intense drought and a low river, Sturt dismissed the area as largely uninhabitable and short of any features necessary for establishing reliable industry on the land. It was not until the mid-1800s following a visit by colonial surveyor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringun, Queensland
Barringun is a rural locality in the Shire of Paroo, Queensland, Australia. It is on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. In the , Barringun had a population of 7 people. The former border town of Wooroorooka is within the south-west of the locality (). Geography Barrigun is bounded to the west by the Warrego River and to the south by the border with New South Wales. Barrigun Road enters the locality from the north ( Tuen) and exits to the south ( Barringun, New South Wales). It is part of the Mitchell Highway that connects Cunnamulla, Queensland to Bourke, New South Wales. The principal land use is grazing on native vegetation. Binya National Park is to the immediate west of the locality in Cuttaburra. Barringun is also the capital of the self-proclaimed Murrawarri Republic. Wooroorooka is located immediately north of the border with New South Wales and is on the Owangowan Creek; it is now abandoned. History The name ''Barringun'' derives from an early settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karumba, Queensland
Karumba is a town and a coastal locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Karumba had a population of 531 people. Geography Karumba is in the Gulf Country region of Queensland, by road from Normanton and from the state capital, Brisbane. Karumba is within the Shire of Carpentaria, the administrative headquarters of which is in Normanton. The town is sited at the mouth of the Norman River, and enjoys the distinction of being the only town along the southern Gulf of Carpentaria that is within sight of the Gulf itself (the Gulf's extensive tidal flats prohibits settlement elsewhere along its shore). The rare Morning Glory cloud rolls through Karumba in the early hours of some mornings in September and October. Karumba Airport is on Fielding Street. There are no regular commercial services from this airport; the nearest regular services are available at Normanton Airport. History The settlement was previously known as Norman Mout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matilda Way
The Matilda Way is an Australian road route from Bourke, New South Wales to Karumba in Queensland. It has been designated by the Queensland Government as a State Strategic Touring Route. The route The New South Wales section is from Bourke to Barringun, on the Queensland side of the state border, via the Mitchell Highway. The route in Queensland is via the Mitchell Highway to Augathella, and then as follows: * Landsborough Highway from Augathella to Cloncurry * Burke Developmental Road from Cloncurry to Howitt (Walker Creek Rest Stop) * Karumba Road from Howitt to Karumba Outback Queensland website The tourism organisation "Outback Queensland" has established a website titled "Matilda Way" that provides some information about each of the following segments: * Barringun to Cunnamulla (intersection with Balonne Highway (Adventure Way)) * Cunnamulla to Charleville (intersections with Warrego Highway and Diamantina Developmental Road (Warrego Way)) * Charleville to Blackall * Bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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