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Barrier Highway was declared (as Main Road No. 8) on 8 August 1928, from the intersection with North-Western Highway (today Mitchell Highway) in Nyngan, via Cobar, Willcannia, and Broken Hill, to the border with South Australia; [2] with the passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929 [6] to provide for additional declarations of State ...
Other rivers join the Darling near Bourke or below – the Bogan River, the Warrego River and Paroo River. Darling River at Louth. South east of Broken Hill, the Menindee Lakes are a series of lakes that were once connected to the Darling River by short creeks. [18] The Menindee Lake Scheme has reduced the frequency of flooding in the Menindee ...
Note that river distances are by their nature imprecise, will always be greater than straight line distances, and frequently greater than road distances. Note the discrepancy between two independent lists, highlighting the variability of conditions on the meandering river from season to season.
Feb. 16—Red status for Vigo, Vermillion, Parke and Sullivan counties has restricted travel to emergency services today. "Unless you have a capable vehicle, you're going to get stuck.
A series of wagon roads following the railroad and the White River (later replaced by the Green River) in the valley were built within a decade. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The corridor was proposed as an addition to Washington's state highway system as early as 1909 and was ultimately added in 1913 as part of the Pacific Highway , although most of this was ...
The river trade during the 1880s was so extensive at Wilcannia that its Customs House was "probably the largest inland Customs Station in New South Wales". [20] When river conditions permitted travel by steamers Wilcannia was a major port on the Darling River. A visitor to the town described the river scene in 1890:
The Border Rivers are a group of Australian rivers and the associated region near part of the state border between New South Wales and Queensland.. The rivers rise in the New England Tablelands bioregion and drain the western side of the Great Dividing Range as they collectively form part of the headwaters of the Darling River within the Murray-Darling basin.
Main Road No. 60 was declared along this road on 8 August 1928, from the bridge over the Murray River at Moama, via Deniliquin and Hay to the intersection with Mid-Western Highway at Booligal; [2] with the passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929 [5] to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was ...