Sturt Highway

Not to be confused with Stuart Highway.

Sturt Highway

South Australia
–New South Wales
B-double truck on Sturt Highway
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length947 km (588 mi)[1]
GazettedAugust 1928 (NSW, as Main Road 58)[2]
August 1933 (NSW, as State Highway 14)[3]
July 1938 (SA)[4]
1939 (VIC)[5]
Route number(s) A20 (2013/2017–present)
Former
route number
  • National Highway A20 (1997/1998–2013/2017)
    (Gawler–VIC/NSW border)
  • National Highway 20 (1992–1997/1998)
    (Gawler–VIC/NSW border)
  • National Highway 20 (1992–2013)
    (VIC/NSW border–Tarcutta)
  • National Route 20 (1955–1992)
    Entire route
Major junctions
West end Gawler Bypass
Gawler, South Australia
 
East end Hume Motorway
Tarcutta, New South Wales
Location(s)
RegionBarossa Light and Lower North, Murray and Mallee,[6] Loddon Mallee,[7] Far West, Riverina, South Western Slopes
Major settlementsNuriootpa, Renmark, Mildura, Balranald, Hay, Narrandera, Wagga Wagga
Highway system
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Sturt Highway is an Australian national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. It is an important road link for the transport of passengers and freight between Sydney and Adelaide and the regions along the route.[8]

Initially an amalgam of trunk routes, the 947-kilometre (588 mi) Sturt Highway was proclaimed a state highway in 1933. In 1955, the Australian Government gazetted the highway as a National Route, and upgraded it to a National Highway in 1992, forming the Sydney-Adelaide Link. Sturt Highway is allocated as route A20 for its entire length, the majority of which is a single carriageway, and freeway standard and 6-lane arterial road standard towards its western terminus in Gawler.[9]

  1. ^ "Sturt Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Main Roads Act, 1924-1927". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 110. 17 August 1928. pp. 3814–20. Archived from the original on 3 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "State's Chief Highways Named". The Chronicle. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 16 June 1938. p. 47. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  4. ^ "NEW MAIN ROADS SCHEDULE". The Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 15 June 1938. p. 25. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Historical Roads of New South Wales" (PDF). NSW Main Roads. Sydney: OpenGov NSW. September 1954. pp. 10–4.
  6. ^ "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Victoria's Regions". Regional Development Victoria. Victoria State Government. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  8. ^ Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. pp. 32–33, 69, 71. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.
  9. ^ "Sturt Highway". Ozroads. Retrieved 25 May 2008.[self-published source]