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The Flinders Highway is a highway that crosses Queensland east to west, from Townsville on the Pacific coast to Cloncurry. The road continues as the Barkly Highway from Cloncurry to the Northern Territory border at Camooweal and beyond. The Flinders Highway passes a number of small outback towns and typical outback landscape predominates ...
Queensland General highways map of Queensland. Queensland, being the second largest (by area) state in Australia, is also the most decentralised. Hence the highways and roads cover most parts of the state unlike the sparsely populated Western Australia. Even Queensland's outback is well served as it is relatively populated.
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Tourist drives in Queensland include numbered and un-numbered routes. Most routes have an official name, but some have been named based on the region in which they occur. Some duplication of numbers exists where the Queensland Government and a local authority have each chosen the same number for use in different regions.
The road starts at an intersection with the Bruce Highway and the Flinders Highway in Stuart. It runs north as Southern Port Road, a two-lane carriageway, passing through Stuart and a small section of Cluden before turning north-west and crossing the Ross River into South Townsville.
Gemoka railway siding was named by the Queensland Railways on 18 September 1925. Gemoka is an Aboriginal word meaning cattle camp. [21] Maxwelton is situated on a low flood plain and its biggest flood on record was in 1917. Waters back up for miles, from the Flinders and Alick Creek. A bridge was completed in 1926 called Hulberts Bridge.
The Richmond–Winton Road commences at an intersection with the Flinders Highway in Richmond, about 3.7 kilometres (2.3 mi) west of the town.It runs generally south-west through Richmond and Albion, and then roughly follows the boundary between Corfield and Kynuna, ending at an intersection with the Landsborough Highway at the Corfield / Kynuna midpoint.
Hughenden is located on the Flinders Highway, 376 kilometres (234 mi) west of Townsville and 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) north-west of Brisbane, the state capital. The region around Hughenden is a major centre for the grazing of sheep and cattle.