Thiele Highway

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Thiele Highway South Australia
Southwest end Northeast end
Coordinates	34°33′58″S 138°44′46″E / 34.566°S 138.746°E / -34.566; 138.746 (Southwest end) 34°01′44″S 139°40′19″E / 34.029°S 139.672°E / -34.029; 139.672 (Northeast end)
General information
Type	Highway
Route number(s)	B81 (1998-present)
Major junctions
Southwest end	Main North Road Gawler Belt, South Australia
	Marrabel–Eudunda Road Worlds End Highway
Northeast end	Goyder Highway Morgan, South Australia
Location(s)
Region	Mid North
Major settlements	Freeling, Kapunda, Eudunda
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in South Australia

The Thiele Highway is a road in South Australia connecting the outskirts of Adelaide to the North west bend of the Murray River at Morgan, South Australia. It is named after author Colin Thiele who lived most of his life in towns along the route, and set some of his stories in the area.

The Thiele Highway branches from the Horrocks Highway at Gawler Belt on the outskirts of Gawler, north of Adelaide. It goes northeast through undulating cropping country to skirt the east side of Freeling and continues to cross the Light River and enter the former mining town of Kapunda. It crosses the Light River again midway between Kapunda and Eudunda. It continues east-north-east from Eudunda down into the Murray Valley and across the plains past a number of small rural local service centres to Morgan where it meets the Murray River and the Goyder Highway. Most of the route is close to the former Morgan railway line.

Major intersections[]

LGA	Location	km[1]	mi	Destinations[2]	Notes
Light Regional Council	Gawler Belt	0	0.0	Horrocks Highway (B82) - Gawler	South-western terminus of route B81
	Freeling	14	8.7	Templers Road - Templers / Daveyston Road - Daveyston
	Kapunda	27	17	Greenock Road - Greenock
		31	19	Tarlee Road - Tarlee / Marrabel Road - Marrabel
		33	21	Truro Road - Truro
Regional Council of Goyder	Eudunda	56	35	Curio Road (B84) - Marrabel
		57	35	Worlds End Highway - Robertstown, Burra
		60	37	Truro-Eudunda Road - Truro
Mid Murray Council	Morgan	116	72	Goyder Highway (B64) - Burra, Renmark	North-eastern terminus of route B81
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Route transition

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