Zeehan-Strahan Road (also known as the ''Strahan to Zeehan road'') is a road that links Strahan with

Zeehan Zeehan is a town on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia south-west of Burnie. It is part of the West Coast Council, along with the seaport Strahan, and neighbouring mining towns of Dundas, Rosebery and Queenstown. History The greater ...

Western Tasmania The West Coast of Tasmania is mainly isolated rough country, associated with wilderness, mining and tourism. It served as the location of an early convict settlement in the early history of Van Diemen's Land, and contrasts sharply with the mor ...

. It runs parallel to Ocean Beach for a distance and crosses the

Henty River The Henty River is a perennial river in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. The river generally lies north of and south of . Location and features Formed by the confluence of the Dobson and Newton Creeks, the river rises below Lake N ...

at the beach's northern end, before turning inland. In the 1920s, the main means of transport between the main centres of the west coast was by the available railways. Between Zeehan and Strahan, the only form of track was via Ocean Beach, otherwise the main mode was by the Strahan-Zeehan Railway. The feasibility of road connections was considered in terms of being able to allow for heavy haulage of ore and timber. The importance of the construction of roads in the West Coast was recognised in the 1920s but materialised in the 1960s or later. Following the early rough stages of the

Zeehan Highway Zeehan Highway (also known as the Queenstown-Zeehan road) is a road between Zeehan and Queenstown in Western Tasmania. Where it leaves the valley in which Queenstown lies, it is the junction with the Queenstown to Strahan road that is at How ...

and the Strahan to Queenstown road it was possible to travel between Zeehan and Strahan in the 1940s. Following the demise of the railways in the 1960s, and the use of the new

between Queenstown and

, some decades later the formation of the earlier railway was in part utilised for the new Zeehan to Strahan road.

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