Strzelecki Track

Strzelecki Track

South Australia
Strzelecki Track; South Australia
	Strzelecki Track (blue and white) and the old part of the track at the northern end; Transferring mail from a camel-drawn coach to a motor truck at Carraweena, near the mid-point of the Strzelecki Track, about 1920
General information
Type	Track
Length	475 km (295 mi)
Major junctions
NE end	Adventure Way,; Innamincka
SW end	Copley-Lyndhurst Road,; Lyndhurst
Location(s)
Region	Far North
Restrictions
Fuel supply	Lyndhurst,; Innamincka,; Cameron Corner;

The Strzelecki Track is an outback track in South Australia, mostly unsealed but with a few short sealed sections to facilitate overtaking, linking Innamincka to Lyndhurst.^[2] It passes through the Strzelecki Desert. The 475-kilometre (295-mile) track was pioneered by bushman Harry Redford in 1871 and is passable to conventional vehicles during the dry season, although caution is required.^[3] A shorter route is available via a public access road between Moomba and Innamincka, making the distance 458 kilometres (285 miles).^[4] It is linked with the Birdsville Track via the Walkers Crossing Track, which is closed in summer and only traversible in dry weather.^[5]

Heritage listings[]

A number of isolated heritage-listed sites are located nearby to the Strzelecki Track:

Tinga Tingana Homestead Ruins^[6]
^[7]
, Merty Merty Station^[8]
, Merty Merty Station^[9]

References[]

^ "Far North (South Australian Government Region)" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
^ Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. pp. 72–73. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.
^ "The Strzelecki Track". Flinders Range Research. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
^ Hema, Maps (2006). Australia’s Great Desert Tracks SE Sheet (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. ISBN 978-1-86500-162-3.
^ "Getting to Innamincka by road". Innamincka Hotel. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
^ "Tinga Tingana Homestead (Ruin)". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 12 February 2016.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Tree, possibly marking the burial site of Charles Gray, member of Burke & Wills' 1861 expedition', Lake Massacre, Innamincka Regional Reserve". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
^ "Well and Whim, Coochilara Waterhole, Merty Merty Station". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
^ "Horse Capstan, Pump & Well, Old Mulga Bore, Merty Merty Station". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.

v t Road infrastructure in South Australia
Expressways	South Eastern Freeway Port River Expressway Northern Expressway North–South Motorway (incomplete, under construction) Southern Expressway
Interstate highways	Barrier Highway Dukes Highway Eyre Highway Mallee Highway Princes Highway Stuart Highway Sturt Highway
State highways	Augusta Highway Gawler Bypass Horrocks Highway Main South Road Port Wakefield Road Riddoch Highway Victor Harbor Road
Arterial roads	Adelaide–Mannum Road Barossa Valley Way Birdseye Highway Browns Well Highway Cameron Highway Copper Coast Highway Flinders Highway Flinders Ranges Way Glenelg Highway Gorge Road Goyder Highway Horrocks Highway Karoonda Highway Lincoln Highway Ngarkat Highway Onkaparinga Valley Road Playford Highway RM Williams Way Southern Ports Highway Spencer Highway St Vincent Highway Strathalbyn Road Strathalbyn–Goolwa Road The Outback Highway Thiele Highway Tod Highway Wellington Road Wilkins Highway Wimmera Highway Yorke Highway
Outback tracks	Anne Beadell Highway Birdsville Track Colson Track Gunbarrel Highway Maralinga to Emu Road Mount Davies Road Oodnadatta Track Strzelecki Track Vokes Hill Corner to Cook Road
Transport in South Australia; List of road routes in South Australia

Strzelecki Track

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Heritage listings[]

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References[]

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