Kamilaroi Highway

Kamilaroi Highway New South Wales
A small mirage on the Kamilaroi Highway near Cryon.
General information
Type	Highway
Length	598 km (372 mi)
Route number(s)	B51 (Willow Tree-Narrabri) No shield (Narrabri-Walgett) B76 (Walgett-Bourke)
Former route number	National Route 37 (unknown-2013) (Willow Tree-Narrabri) No shield (unknown-2013) (Narrabri-Bourke)
Major junctions
NW end	Mitchell Highway (B71) Bourke, New South Wales
	Castlereagh Highway (B55) Newell Highway (A39) Oxley Highway (B56)
SE end	New England Highway (A15) Willow Tree, New South Wales
Location(s)
Major settlements	Brewarrina, Walgett, Cryon, Burren Junction, Wee Waa, Narrabri, Boggabri, Gunnedah, Curlewis, Breeza, Quirindi, Braefield
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in New South Wales

The Kamilaroi Highway is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia. It has been given the alpha numeric route B51 for most of its length. Its status as a highway is fairly new.

It runs 620 kilometres (390 mi) from Willow Tree on the New England Highway in central New South Wales in a north-western direction until it reaches Bourke on the Mitchell Highway. ^{[citation needed]} The Kamilaroi Highway crosses the Bogan River 43 kilometres (27 mi) east of Bourke.^[1]

The highway is named after the Kamilaroi Indigenous Australian people who live in the area.^{[citation needed]}

Route attractions and features

Approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of Boggabri is a spectacular landmark called Gin’s Leap, that was known in the days of Cobb and Co as "The Rock". It is said that a young Aboriginal girl, promised to an elder of her tribe, the Kamilaroi, ran away with a young aboriginal man from another tribe. While being pursued by Kamilaroi tribesmen, the lovers jumped to their death from somewhere along the top of this rock.^{[citation needed]}

See also

Australian Roads portal

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in New South Wales

References

External links

Media related to Kamilaroi Highway at Wikimedia Commons

• Kamilaroi Highway website - website
• Kamilaroi Highway - Narrabri information website

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