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GETTING THERE — from Interstate to Queensland 14 www.caravanqld.com.au GETTING THERE Bamaga Torres Strait DARWIN Weipa Timor Sea Arafura Sea Katherine Coen G r e — a t B a Gulf Of Carpentaria r r i Cooktown e r to Queensland from Interstate Lakeland R Daly Waters e e Coral Sea f M a Karumba Mareeba CAIRNS r in Atherton e Normanton P Innisfail a Burketown r BROOME SavannahCroydon Way Mt Garnet k Mt Surprise Indian Tenant Creek Ocean Camooweal TOWNSVILLE Flinders Cloncurry Hwy Charters Towers Mount Isa A2 Richmond Airlie Beach PORT HEDLAND A6 Julia Creek Proserpine Overlander’s Way Hughenden A7 QUEENSLAND Mackay Inland Way Winton Boulia South Pacific Outback Way A2 Great Ocean NORTHERN Clermont Barcaldine Longreach Capella ALICE SPRINGS Yeppoon TERRITORY Capricorn Hwy A4 Emerald Alpha ROCKHAMPTON Matilda Blackall Springsure Gladstone Country Biloela Way Tambo Hwy Windorah Birdsville Theodore Bundaberg Augathella Injune Australia’s WESTERN A6 Charleville Gayndah Hervey Bay SOUTH Morven Maryborough AUSTRALIA A2 Roma A3 Adventure Way Quilpie Warrego Hwy Way AUSTRALIA Miles Gympie Kingaroy Innamincka Surat Thargomindah Dalby Cunnamulla A7 Moonie Leichardt St George Toowoomba BRISBANE 71 Dirranbandi Goondiwindi Barringun Warwick Gold Coast Hebel Mungindi 39 Stanthorpe NEW Tenterfield Lightning Ridge 1 GERALTON Bourke Moree Hwy SOUTH Mitchell Hwy Walgett Glen Innes Grafton WALES Narrabri Coonamble Coffs Eyre Highway Barrier Hwy England Cobar Armidale Route Harbour Indian Coonabarabran New Eyre Highway Port Augusta Nyngan Tamworth Ocean Broken Hill Gilgandra 15 Touring Port Macquarie Great Australian Bight 1 Dubbo Scone Taree PERTH Coast Mudgee Mount Hope Orange PacificNewcastle Sturt Hwy Forbes Southern Sea Bathurst Griffith 39 SYDNEY ADELAIDE Darlington Point Hwy Narrandera Hume Hwy Woolongong 39 Jerilderie Newell CANBERRA Bordertown VICTORIA Tocumwal Batemans Bay Shepparton Horsham ACT 39 Seymour Bega Ballarat MELBOURNE Traralgon GETTING THERE Bairnsdale Princes Hwy V Tasman Sea e h Bass Strait from Interstate to Queensland ic le F e r r y From Northern Territory From Victoria Devonport The most popular route is on the From Melbourne, the Newell TASMANIA Overlander’s Way from Tennant Highway offers a direct route to Creek crossing the Queensland/ South East Queensland, with easy HOBART Northern Territory border near access to Central Queensland Carnooweal. This road is sealed. via the Leichhardt Highway or Australia’s Country Way. Dubbo, From Western Australia home of Western Plans Zoo, marks the halfway point to the Queensland Select your route across, then Border. If you wish to travel to join on to one from the Northern Queensland’s Qutback turn left Territory or South Australia. at Dubbo then head north on the The roads shown on this map are only some of those Mitchell Highway, which will take available but are the ones most popularly used. From South Australia you to the border at Barringun and the start of the Matilda Highway. From Adelaide, travel along the An alternative route to Queensland Barrier Highway through Broken is via the Great Inland Way which From New South Wales SPECIAL Hill to Nyngan where you can head will lead you through the middle of north along the Mitchell Highway to the state and up to Cairns. Then of From Sydney there are two major CONDITIONS Queensland’s Outback or continue course, The Hume Highway or the routes, the Pacific Coast Touring Some other alternative routes through to Gilgandra. At Gilgandra, Princes Highway (coastal route are Route or the New England Highway, from all states may require special you can take the Great Inland Way also great options). which begins at Newcastle. The driving experience and tow vehicle/ or the Newell Highway leading Pacific Coast Touring Route is a caravan combinations suitable for you to South East Queensland. shorter distance, but both journeys the conditions. Always check road Alternatively, follow the Sturt will take about the same time. Try conditions before you set off on Highway to Narrandera and then the going up one way and returning your journey. Newell Highway. along the other. GETTING THERE — from Interstate to Queensland.
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