Buntine Highway

Buntine Highway

Western Australia
–Northern Territory
Map of north-western Australia with Buntine Highway highlighted in red
General information
TypeRural road
Length581 km (361 mi)
Route number(s)
  • National Route 96 (WA/NT border – Victoria Highway)
  • B96 (future route number in Northern Territory)
Former
route number		 National Route 80 (Nicholson – Top Springs)
Major junctions
West endDuncan Road, Nicholson, Western Australia
  Buchanan Highway (National Route 80)
East end Victoria Highway (National Highway 1), Delamere, Northern Territory[1]
Location(s)
Major settlementsKalkarindji, Top Springs
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The Buntine Highway is a 581-kilometre highway in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It runs from the Victoria Highway via Top Springs and Kalkarindji and then to Nicholson, Western Australia.[2] The section from the Victoria Highway to Kalkaringi is a single-lane sealed road with a few dual-lane sections; the remaining section is unsealed.[3] Funding for maintenance is provided by the Northern Territory government.[4]

The highway was named in 1996 after Noel Buntine who established a livestock transportation business known as Buntine Roadways in the 1950s in northern Australia.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Place Names Register Extract for "Buntine Highway"". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  2. ^ Department of Transport (April 1998). "Map of all NT Roads" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  3. ^ Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.
  4. ^ "Funding for NT roads". 24 April 2010. Archived from the original on 6 March 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2014.