Buntine Highway

Buntine Highway

Western Australia
–Northern Territory
Buntine Highway; Western Australia–Northern Territory
	Map of north-western Australia with Buntine Highway highlighted in red
General information
Type	Rural road
Length	581 km (361 mi)
Route number(s)	National Route 96 (WA/NT border – Victoria Highway); B96 (future route number in Northern Territory);
Former; route number	National Route 80 ( – Top Springs)
Major junctions
West end	Duncan Road,
	Buchanan Highway (National Route 80)
East end	Victoria Highway (National Highway 1), Delamere, Northern Territory
Location(s)
Major settlements	Kalkarindji, Top Springs

The Buntine Highway is a 581-kilometre highway in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It runs from the Victoria Highway via Top Springs and Kalkarindji and then to , Western Australia.^[2] The section from the Victoria Highway to Kalkaringi is a single-lane sealed road with a few dual-lane sections; the remaining section is unsealed.^[3] Funding for maintenance is provided by the Northern Territory government.^[4]

The highway was named in 1996 after who established a livestock transportation business known as Buntine Roadways in the 1950s in northern Australia.^[1]

Major intersections[]

The only major intersection on this road is with the Buchanan Highway (National Route 80) at Top Springs.

References[]

^ ^a ^b "Place Names Register Extract for "Buntine Highway"". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
^ Department of Transport (April 1998). "Map of all NT Roads" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
^ Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.
^ "Funding for NT roads". 24 April 2010. Archived from the original on 6 March 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2014.

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[NT-PNR-1] "Place Names Register Extract for "Buntine Highway"". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 5 March 2020.

[2] Department of Transport (April 1998). "Map of all NT Roads" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.

[3] Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.

[4] "Funding for NT roads". 24 April 2010. Archived from the original on 6 March 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2014.

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v t Road infrastructure in Northern Territory
National highways	Barkly Highway Stuart Highway Victoria Highway
Highways	Arnhem Highway Carpentaria Highway Kakadu Highway Lasseter Highway Roper Highway Ross Highway Tablelands Highway
Major urban roads	Bagot Road Berrimah Road McMillans Road Tiger Brennan Drive Trower Road
Outback tracks and numbered state routes	Buchanan Highway Buntine Highway Central Arnhem Road Colson Track Cox Peninsula Road Daly River Road Dorat Road Duncan Road Gary Junction Road Great Central Road Gunbarrel Highway Larapinta Drive Plenty Highway Ross Highway Sandover Highway Sandy Blight Junction Road Savannah Way Tanami Road

v t Road infrastructure in Western Australia
Freeways	Graham Farmer Freeway Kwinana Freeway Mitchell Freeway
Metropolitan highways	Albany Highway Brookton Highway Canning Highway Great Eastern Highway (Bypass) Great Northern Highway Leach Highway Reid Highway Roe Highway South Western Highway Stirling Highway Tonkin Highway West Coast Highway
Highways and major roads	Albany Highway Brand Highway Brockman Highway Brookton Highway Bussell Highway Coalfields Road Coolgardie–Esperance Highway Dampier Highway Derby Highway Eyre Highway Forrest Highway Geraldton–Mount Magnet Road Goldfields Highway Great Eastern Highway Great Northern Highway Great Southern Highway Indian Ocean Drive Mandjoogoordap Drive Manuwarra Red Dog Highway Muirs Highway North West Coastal Highway Old Coast Road Robertson Drive South Coast Highway South Western Highway Vasse Highway Victoria Highway
Outback tracks	Anne Beadell Highway Buntine Highway Canning Stock Route Cape Leveque Road Connie Sue Highway Duncan Road Gary Highway Gary Junction Road Gibb River Road Great Central Road Gunbarrel Highway Kalumburu Road Sandy Blight Junction Road Talawana Track Tanami Road
Lists	Highways Major roads Gascoyne Goldfields-Esperance Kimberley Mid West Perth Pilbara Wheatbelt Road routes Tourist Drives

Buntine Highway

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