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Coolgardie–Esperance Highway was an unsealed road until 1960, when a 3.7 metre wide (single-lane) seal was completed between Coolgardie and Esperance. [6] In 1974 the road was upgraded further and a two lane seal completed was between Coolgardie and Norseman. [ 6 ]
Menang Drive (State Route 103) – Perth, Esperance, Port Albany, Albany Ring Road: Lockyer–Orana boundary: 116: 72: Albany Highway (State Route 30) north – Albany, Mount Barker, Kojonup, Perth: Eastern terminus of western section. No right turn from Albany Highway southbound: 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
The suburb of Esperance is the central business district of the town of Esperance, in the Shire of Esperance, Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It is located on Esperance Bay, on the Southern Ocean. [2] [3] The suburb of Esperance is on the traditional land of the Njunga people of the Noongar nation.
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 ...
The Norseman–Esperance portion (National Route 1) is a part of Australia's Highway 1. The scenery changes to agricultural land, and on approach to Esperance it passes near lakes and hillsides. Following the Western Australian gold rushes of the 1890s, a track developed between Coolgardie and Esperance, the closest harbour to the goldfields. A ...
The highway is a part of the route linking Perth to Esperance and is identified as a strategic freight and tourist route. [2] For most of the road it is able to cater for heavy vehicle combinations up to 36.5 m (120 ft) in length which generally carry grain and livestock.
Esperance is a town [2] in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, on the Southern Ocean coastline approximately 720 kilometres (450 mi) east-southeast of the state capital, Perth and 391 kilometres (243 mi) south of Kalgoorlie. The urban population of Esperance was 12,003 at June 2018. [1]
The Eastern Goldfields Railway, was built in the 1890s by the Western Australian Government Railways to connect Perth with the Eastern Goldfields at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. [ 1 ] It is a part of the interstate standard gauge railway between Perth and the rest of Australia.