Mallee Highway

The Mallee Highway[1][2][3] (formerly the Ouyen Highway in Victoria) is part of the shortest route between Adelaide and Sydney. It runs east from Tailem Bend in South Australia through cereal-growing farmland at the southern end of the Murray Mallee to Pinnaroo near the border with Victoria, where it crosses Pinnaroo-Loxton and Pinnaroo-Bordertown Road in Pinnaroo. It continues in Victoria through Ouyen, where it crosses the Calder Highway (the old Ouyen Highway terminated at the Calder Highway and never proceeded east), and Piangil, where it crosses the Murray Valley Highway.

Mallee Highway South Australia –Victoria
General information
Type	Highway
Length	377 km (234 mi)
Route number(s)	B12 (1998–present) Entire route
Former route number	National Route 12 (? – 1999) Entire route
Major junctions
West end	Dukes Highway Tailem Bend, South Australia
	Calder Highway for full list see major intersections
East end	Murray Valley Highway Piangil, Victoria
Location(s)
Major settlements	Lameroo, Pinnaroo, Ouyen, Manangatang
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in South Australia Highways in Victoria

Route B12, however continues past the Mallee Highway terminus along the Murray Valley Highway for two kilometres north of Piangil, linking to Tooleybuc Road where it continues until it crosses the New South Wales border and the Murray River at Tooleybuc. The road then continues to Balranald, at the Murrumbidgee River (without the B12 designation). Tooleybuc Road terminates at the Sturt Highway which continues en route to Sydney via the Hume Highway or Mid-Western Highway.

Major intersections and towns

State	LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
South Australia	The Coorong	Tailem Bend	0	0.0	Dukes Highway (A8) – Bordertown, Melbourne / Tailem Bend, Adelaide	100 km from Adelaide
		Moorlands	14	8.7	Old Dukes Highway – Coomandook
	Southern Mallee	Lameroo	99	62
		Pinnaroo	133	83	Ngarkat Highway (B57) – Bordertown, Naracoorte
			139	86	Browns Well Highway (B57) – Loxton, Renmark
South Australia / Victoria			145	90	South Australia — Victoria State Border
Victoria	Mildura	Murrayville	166	103
		Boinka	207	129
		Underbool	226	140
		Walpeup	246	153	Walpeup-Patchewollock Road – Patchewollock, Hopetoun
		Ouyen	274	170	Ouyen-Patchewollock Road – Patchewollock, Hopetoun
			275.7	171.3	Calder Highway (A79) – Ballarat, Bendigo, Melbourne
			275.8	171.4	Calder Highway (A79) – Red Cliffs, Mildura
	Swan Hill	Manangatang	331	206	Robinvale–Sea Lake Road – Robinvale, Sea Lake
		Piangil	372	231	Murray Valley Highway (B400) – Swan Hill, Melbourne
			374	232	Murray Valley Highway (B400) – Robinvale, Sydney
New South Wales – Victoria state border			376	234	New South Wales – Victoria state border
New South Wales	Murray River				Tooleybuc Bridge
	Balranald	Balranald	429	267	Sturt Highway – Mildura / Sydney
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

• Highways in Australia
• Highways in Victoria
• List of highways in New South Wales
• List of highways in South Australia

References

1. Mallee Highway Touring Route, Design Train. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.
2. National Routes – Interstate Links, Main Roads Victoria. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.
3. B12 Mallee Highway, Ozroads. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.

External links

Media related to Mallee Highway at Wikimedia Commons