Sturt Highway
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Sturt Highway South Australia–New South Wales |
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| Type | Highway |
| Length | 947 km (588 mi) |
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| West end |
 Max Fatchen Expressway (National Highway M20),Gawler, South Australia |
 Barrier Highway (A32) Barossa Valley Way (B19) Calder Highway(A79) Silver City Highway (B79) Murray Valley Highway Mid-Western Highway (B64) via  Cobb Highway (B75) Kidman Way (B87) Newell Highway (A39) Olympic Highway (A41) |
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| East end |
 Hume Motorway (M31),Tarcutta, New South Wales |
| Major settlements | Nuriootpa, Renmark, Mildura, Balranald, Hay, Narrandera, Wagga Wagga |
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Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in South Australia Highways in Victoria Highways in New South Wales |
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National Highway A20
National Highway A20
National Highway A20
National Highway 20 (1992-2013) Entire route
The Sturt Highway is an Australian national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. The Sturt Highway is an important road link for the transport of passengers and freight between Sydney and Adelaide and the regions situated adjacent to the route.
Initially an amalgam of trunk routes, the 947-kilometre (588 mi) Sturt Highway was proclaimed a state highway in 1933 and was named in honour of Captain Charles Sturt who explored the area in 1829 and opened it up for agriculture. In 1955, the Australian Government gazetted the highway as a national route and upgraded as a national highway in 1992, forming the Sydney-Adelaide Link. The Sturt carries the National Highway 20 shield for its entire length, the majority of which is a single carriageway and freeway standard and 6-lane arterial road standard towards its western terminus, north of Adelaide.
The highway runs generally east-west, roughly aligned to the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales, then, following that river's confluence with the Murray River, aligned to the Murray in north-western Victoria and eastern South Australia, generally towards the northern outskirts of Adelaide. The highway is the shortest and highest standard route between Sydney and Adelaide.
The eastern terminus of the Sturt Highway is at a junction with the Hume Highway at Tarcutta, near Gundagai. Heading west, the Sturt passes through the city of Wagga Wagga and the towns Narrandera, Darlington Point, Hay, Balranald, Euston, leaving NSW by crossing the Murray River into Victoria from Buronga to Mildura. The highway continues more or less due west through the northwest of Victoria before entering South Australia. This section of road was built in 1927 as part of the Murray Valley Road to provide a shorter, and all-weather, road connection between Mildura and Renmark. In South Australia, the Sturt Highway passes Renmark, Monash, Barmera, Waikerie, Blanchetown, Nuriootpa and Gawler where it reaches its western terminus, although Gawler is bypassed.
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