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Great Northern Highway is a main highway through the Kimberley region, and part of the Perth to Darwin national highway. From the south-western edge of the region at Eighty Mile Beach near the Sandfire Roadhouse, the highway travels north-east along the coast to Roebuck, east of Broome.
Great Northern Highway is an Australian highway that links Western Australia's capital city Perth with its northernmost port, Wyndham.With a length of almost 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi), it is the longest highway in Australia, with the majority included as part of the Perth Darwin National Highway.
In 1950, Broome was the setting for Arthur Upfield's novel The Widows of Broome, his 12th novel featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ("Bony"). Gantheaume Point, circa 1910. Dinosaur footprints dated as Early Cretaceous in age (approximately 130 million years ago) were discovered 30 m (98 ft) out to sea at Gantheaume Point in the 1960s.
With a new road via Pinjarra at the foothills of the Darling Scarp completed in 1876, and the opening of the Perth−Bunbury railway in 1893, few people travelled up the old coastal road. In the late 1930s there was a proposal to re-establish the road as a tourist route, which could also reduce traffic on the main road along the foothills, but ...
Many major roads in Perth [4] and in rural Western Australia [5] are not assigned a route number. Not many routes have been added in the Perth and Peel regions since the 1990s with the exceptions including the Graham Farmer Freeway in 2000 and Mandjoogoordap Drive in 2010. A subsequent review of the system was undertaken in 2024 which resulted ...
Perth: Clarkson: 36.00 22.37 H17: Tonkin Highway Tonkin Highway: Muchea: Oakford: 80.70 50.14 H18: Roe Highway Roe Highway: Middle Swan: Bibra Lake: 34.88 21.67 H19: Great Eastern Highway Bypass Great Eastern Highway Bypass: South Guildford: Hazelmere: 5.58 3.47 H20: Graham Farmer Freeway Graham Farmer Freeway: West Perth: Rivervale: 6.84 4.25 ...
Kimberley Coast: Northern Territory / Western Australia border to Broome (2003 manual, figure 2-2 Pilbara Kimberley Region) Canning: Broome to Port Hedland (Cape Keraudren – east of the De Grey River delta in the 2003 manual) Pilbara Coast: Port Hedland to Onslow; Coral Coast or Gascoyne region – Onslow to Kalbarri (Shark Bay in the 2003 ...
The Shire of Broome was first established as the second Broome Road District on 20 December 1918, when it was separated from the West Kimberley Road District. The area had been previously represented by an earlier Broome Road District (1901-1908) and the Municipality of Broome (1904-1918) but both had merged back into the West Kimberley district.