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Thiele Highway | |
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Coordinates |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 116 km (72 mi) [1] |
Route number(s) | B81 (1998–present) |
Major junctions | |
Southwest end | Main North Road Gawler Belt, South Australia |
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Northeast end | Goyder Highway Morgan, South Australia |
Location(s) | |
Region | Yorke and Mid North [2] |
Major settlements | Freeling, Kapunda, Eudunda |
Highway system | |
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.
Thiele Highway branches from 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 Goyder Highway. [3] Most of the route is close to the former Morgan railway line.
LGA [4] | Location [1] [3] | km [1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Light | Gawler Belt | 0 | 0.0 | Horrocks Highway (B82) – Gawler | South western terminus of highway and route B81 |
Freeling | 14 | 8.7 | Templers Road (west) – Templers Daveyston Road – Daveyston | ||
Kapunda | 27 | 17 | Greenock Road – Greenock | ||
31 | 19 | Tarlee Road (west) – Tarlee Marrabel Road (north) – Marrabel | |||
33 | 21 | Truro Road – Truro | |||
Goyder | Eudunda | 56 | 35 | Curio Road (B84) – Marrabel, Saddleworth | |
57 | 35 | Worlds End Highway – Robertstown, Burra | |||
60 | 37 | Truro–Eudunda Road – Truro | |||
Mid Murray | Morgan | 116 | 72 | Goyder Highway (B64) – Burra, Renmark | North eastern terminus of highway and route B81 |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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