Birdseye Highway
Road across Eyre Peninsula in South Australia
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West end
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East end
- 33°39′13″S 134°54′26″E / 33.653482°S 134.907140°E / -33.653482; 134.907140 (West end)
- 33°40′45″S 136°51′18″E / 33.679217°S 136.855050°E / -33.679217; 136.855050 (East end)
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Elliston, South Australia
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Cowell, South Australia
- Highways in Australia
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- Highways in South Australia
Birdseye Highway is an east–west road across Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It was named for Sylvia Birdseye who drove the first bus service to the area from Adelaide for 43 years, starting in 1928,[3] and is the first highway in South Australia to be named for a woman.[4]
Route
Birdseye Highway connects Elliston on Flinders Highway on the west coast, through Cleve and Lock to Cowell on the Lincoln Highway near the Spencer Gulf coast.[5]
Major junctions
LGA[6] | Location[1][5] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Elliston | Elliston | 0 | 0.0 | ![]() | Western terminus of highway and route B91 |
Mount Wedge | 30 | 19 | Kyancutta-Mount Wedge Road – Kyancutta | ||
Lock | 89 | 55 | ![]() | ||
Cleve | Cleve | 163 | 101 | Cleve Road (north) – Kimba Arno Bay Road (south) – Arno Bay | |
Franklin Harbour | Cowell | 198 | 123 | ![]() | Eastern terminus of highway and route B91, 6 km west of Cowell |
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References
- ^ a b c "Birdseye Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. 30 May 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- ^ "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ "Birdseye Highway & Memorial". Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ "BIRDSEYE, Sylvia Jessie Catherine". HerStory Archive. National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Location SA Map viewer with suburb layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ "Location SA Map viewer with LGA layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
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Road infrastructure in South Australia
- South Eastern Freeway
- Port River Expressway
- Northern Expressway
- North–South Motorway (incomplete, under construction)
- Southern Expressway
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- Adelaide–Mannum Road
- Alexandrina Road
- Barossa Valley Way
- Birdseye Highway
- Browns Well Highway
- Cameron Highway
- Copper Coast Highway
- Flinders Highway
- Flinders Ranges Way
- Glenelg Highway
- Gorge Road
- Goyder Highway
- Horrocks Highway
- Karoonda Highway
- Lincoln Highway
- Ngarkat Highway
- Olympic Dam Highway
- Onkaparinga Valley Road
- Playford Highway
- RM Williams Way
- Southern Ports Highway
- Spencer Highway
- St Vincent Highway
- Stott Highway
- Strathalbyn Road
- The Outback Highway
- Thiele Highway
- Tod Highway
- Wellington Road
- Wilkins Highway
- Wilmington–Ucolta Road
- Wimmera Highway
- Yorke Highway