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Iconic Road Trips
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Crossing The Nullarbor plain, WA/SA
Driving across the Nullarbor Plain is for many the quintessential experience of the Australian Outback. It is the ultimate Australian Road Trip and one every Australian should do at least once in their lifetime. It travels along one of the safest outback roads in Australia, with accommodation, cafes and vehicle repair facilities at regular intervals along the way.
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The Explorers Way, NT/SA
The Explorer's Way follows the route of John McDouall Stuart, a famous Australian explorer who was the first to traverse the continent in 1862. This drive connects Australia's south and north, from Adelaide in South Australia to Darwin in the Northern Territory, and takes in many of Australia's best-known icons, including the Flinders Ranges, Alice Springs, Uluru (Ayers Rock) (as a detour), Kakadu National Park (detour) and Darwin.
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The Birdsville Track, SA/Qld
Established during the 1880s, the Birdsville Track was the main stock route between Marree in South Australia and Birdsville in Queensland. Usually taking about a month to complete, the route was long and extremely harsh and cattle often didn't survive the trip. Camel trains fared better. Until the 1930s these animals were used as the major transporters into a largely inaccessible region, but were released into the wild when road transport took over. Nowadays, the track is passable to conventional vehicles for most of the year. The current fascination with the outback has meant that a regular stream of adventurers make the 517km journey.
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Regional Drives
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Westall Way, Streaky Bay, SA
A short coastal drive, Westall Way is one of the Eyre Peninsula's best kept secrets, a showcase of an amazing variety of landforms and seascapes. Dotted along Westall Way are rugged limestone cliffs, granite boulders covered in golden lichen, secluded granite pools and the ever-present foaming white breakers of the Great Australian Bight. In stark contrast are the huge white Yanerbie sandhills. At Pt. Labbat, visitors are treated to a bird's eye view of Australia's only mainland sea-lion colony.
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Wine Country, SA
Beginning and ending in the city of Adelaide, this drive takes you to the charming Germanic towns of the Barossa Valley, to the historic river town of Mannum, on to the vineyards and beaches of Robe, and to Mount Gambier, famous for a plethora of outstanding nature attractions. Wine regions included in the tour: Barossa Valley; Coonawarra; Limestone Coast; Fleurieu Peninsula; MacLaren Vale.
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Whaler's Way, SA
One of the most dramatic sections of coastline on the Australian mainland occurs on the promontory 32km to the south west of the town of Port Lincoln, South Australia, at the foot of the Eyre Peninsula. Whaler's Way, a series of unsealed tracks which pass through private property along its 14km length, give access to the area and its well sign-posted coastal features. A unique feature of the area is a series of natural crevasses, giant fissures in the rocky coastline which have created deep bays, rock pools and chasms in the rock into which the sea surges back and forth. These crevasses are of varying depths, lengths and widths.
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Roads Less Travelled
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Flinders Hwy, Eyre Peninsula, SA
A giant triangle of the Australian continent that juts out into the Great Australian Bight, Eyre Peninsula is one of the lesser known regions of Australia. The Flinders Highway, which follows its west coast from Ceduna to Port Lincoln and the tip of the Peninsula, is one of the least travelled highways, yet passes by some of the most unusual and interesting coastal vistas in the country.
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Copper Belt, SA
When the Industrial Revolution was in full swing in 19th century England, machinery was at a premium and this meant a shortage of metals. Major English, Scottish and Welsh companies turned to South Australia after a rich belt of copper was found. Its exploitation not only satisfied the demands in England, but brought much needed revenue to a colony close to bankruptcy. The legacy of those activities lives on in the former mining towns of Yorke Peninsula and the SA Wheatbelt.
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