Capricorn Highway

Capricorn Highway

Map
General information
TypeHighway
Length575 km (357 mi)
Route number(s)
  • A4
  • (Entire Route)
  • Duplexes:
  • A7
  • (Emerald – Emerald East)
Former
route number
National Route 66
Major junctions
West end Landsborough Highway (National Highway A2), Barcaldine
  Gregory Highway (State Highway A7)
Leichhardt Highway (State Highway A5)
East end Bruce Highway (Queensland Highway A1), Rockhampton
Location(s)
Major settlementsJericho, Alpha, Emerald, Blackwater, Gogango, Westwood
Highway system
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The Capricorn Highway is located in Central Queensland, Australia, and links the city of Rockhampton with western Queensland.[1] The highway is 575 kilometres (357 mi) long, and joins the Landsborough Highway at Barcaldine.[2] Formerly National Route 66, Queensland began to convert to the alphanumeric system much of Australia had adopted in the early-2000s and is now designated as A4. The highway runs parallel with the Tropic of Capricorn, hence its name.

Other towns situated along the highway include (from east to west): Gracemere, Kabra, Stanwell, Westwood, Gogango, Duaringa, Dingo, Bluff, Blackwater, Comet, Emerald, Bogantungan, Alpha and Jericho.

Running virtually east/west, the highway traverses the area known as the Central Highlands, and crosses the Great Dividing Range between Alpha and Jericho.

  1. ^ "Queensland Government – Department of Transport and Main Roads – Maps". Archived from the original on 19 March 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  2. ^ Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.