Dampier Highway, formerly known as Karratha-Dampier Road, is a

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

n highway linking Dampier on the state's north-western coast with the nearby regional centre of Karratha. The long highway is also the primary thoroughfare for both communities to access the

Karratha Airport Karratha Airport is an airport in Karratha, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The airport is from Karratha and south of Dampier. History At the beginning of the iron ore industry in the early 1960s, Dampier was chosen as the Por ...

, as well as industrial facilities including the Pluto

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project and

Murujuga National Park Murujuga, formerly known as Dampier Island and today usually known as the Burrup Peninsula, is in the Dampier Archipelago, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, containing the town of Dampier. The Dampier Rock Art Precinct, which covers ...

located on the Burrup Peninsula. The road was completed in the late 1960s as a major link between Karratha and Dampier. While there is no direct connection to the North West Coastal Highway, both De Witt Road and Madigan Road provide links between the two highways at Karratha. Duplication of Dampier Highway between Balmoral Road West and Burrup Peninsula Road, turning it into a

dual carriageway A dual carriageway ( BE) or divided highway ( AE) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation (BrE) or median (AmE). Roads with two or more carriageways which are ...

, was completed on 28 February 2013 by the Downe
Highway Construction
Albem Operations Joint Venture.

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Highways in rural Western Australia Pilbara {{WesternAustralia-road-stub

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