Wimmera Highway

Wimmera Highway

Victoria
–South Australia
Wimmera Highway passing through Rupanyup
Wimmera Highway is located in Victoria
East end
East end
West end
West end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length346.1 km (215 mi)[3]
GazettedMarch 1915 (as Main Road)[1]
1959/60 (as State Highway)[2]
Route number(s)
  • B240 (2003–present)
    (Marong–VIC/SA border)
  • C240 (1998–present)
    (VIC/SA border–Naracoorte)
Former
route number
  • C240 (1998–2003)
    (Marong–VIC/SA border)
  • State Route 130 (1986–1998)
    (St Arnaud–Naracoorte)
Major junctions
East end Calder Alternative Highway
Marong, Victoria
 
West endLucindale Road
Naracoorte, South Australia
Location(s)
RegionLimestone Coast,[4] Grampians, Loddon Mallee[5]
Major settlementsNewbridge, St Arnaud, Rupanyup, Murtoa, Horsham, Natimuk, Edenhope, Apsley
Highway system
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Wimmera Highway is a 345 kilometre rural highway that runs predominately through the Wimmera region of western Victoria, after which the highway is named. It links the towns of Marong, Victoria, just to the west of the major regional centre of Bendigo in Victoria, and Naracoorte, in the south-eastern corner of South Australia.[6]

  1. ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 24 March 1915. pp. 1099–1100, 1102. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Forty-Seventh Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1960". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 21 November 1960. pp. 7–8.
  3. ^ "Wimmera Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Victoria's Regions". Regional Development Victoria. Victoria State Government. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference vicreg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).