The Sturt Highway, outside of Gawler, South Australia. Image taken by Michael Greenslade - part of the Australian Towns, Cities & Highways website at http://www.hotkey.net.au/~krool/photos/index.htm
The South Australian/Victorian Border. Image taken by Michael Greenslade - part of the Australian Towns, Cities & Highways website at http://www.hotkey.net.au/~krool/photos/index.htm
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 Highway heads more or less due west, passing through the northwest of Victoria, and linking the towns of Wagga Wagga, Narrandera, Hay, Balranald, Mildura, Renmark and Gawler to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. The highway carries the route number National Highway A20 in South Australia and Victoria, and National 20 in New South Wales.
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. 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:
At Mildura over a high arched bridge
At Paringa (near Renmark) over a lift-span bridge which used to have a railway through the middle as well as the road carriageway on each side
At Kingston over a high bridge from an embankment on the right bank to the cliffs on the left bank
At Blanchetown over another high bridge to cliffs on the right bank.
As well as linking with the Hume Highway, the Sturt Highway connects with the Newell Highway at Narrandera, and the Mid-Western Highway at Hay.
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 SturtHighway (see also SturtHighway) from Mildura to Adelaide.
The SturtHighway is the main highway route between Sydney and Adelaide.
The SturtHighway commences at its junction with the Hume Highway near Gundagai south west of Sydney.
The SturtHighway 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.
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