Duncan Road

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Duncan Road

Formerly known as Duncan Highway
Length	443 km
General direction	Northeast-Southwest
From	Victoria Highway, Keep River National Park, Northern Territory near NT/WA border
via	Bungle Bungle National Park, Nicholson
To	Great Northern Highway, Halls Creek, Western Australia
Allocation	Nicholson - Halls Creek:
Major Junctions	Buntine Highway

Duncan Road^[1] is a generally northeast-southwest former highway in the northeast of Western Australia and northwest of Northern Territory which links the Victoria Highway with Halls Creek. The highway is approximately 443 kilometres (275 mi) in length, is confusingly designated as National Route 80 from Nicholson to Halls Creek and snakes its way through the Western Australia / Northern Territory borders numerous times from Victoria Highway to Buntine Highway in a north-south direction.

It then heads westwards towards Halls Creek, and since the change of National Route 80 heading north to Timber Creek from its original alignment westwards, which has been replaced as National Route 96, National Route 80 has been retained in the West Australian section from Nicholson to Halls Creek.

[edit] History and present

The highway was decommissioned in July 1976, and today it is highly advisable that a supply of fuel is taken on board, along with fresh water as there are no facilities or fuel centres at all for the 443 kilometre trek.