Princes Highway
Formerly in SA and Vic.'
Length	1784 km
General direction	West-East
From	Eyre Highway / Stuart Highway, Port Augusta, South Australia
via	Tailem Bend, SA, Mount Gambier, SA, Warrnambool, Vic., Geelong, Vic., Pakenham, Vic., Sale, Vic., Orbost, Vic., Batemans Bay, NSW, Wollongong, NSW
To	Great Western Highway, Chippendale, Sydney
Established	1920
Allocation	[[1]]

The Princes Highway is a segment of Australia's Highway 1 that extends from Sydney to Adelaide and Port Augusta, South Australia via Melbourne. South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country The kilometre ( American spelling: kilometer) symbol km is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one thousand Location Named after Edward John Eyre the Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia. The Stuart Highway is one of Australia 's major highways it is part of Australia's Highway 1, and Australia's National Highway Port Augusta (post code 5700 ( is the fifth most populous City in South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier, Whyalla and Tailem Bend is a town on the Murray River in South Australia. Mount Gambier (post code 5290 ( is the second most populous City in South Australia after Adelaide, the capital of the state Warrnambool is a regional city with a population of 30392 people on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia, located in the municipality City of Warrnambool MCite/Citephp.--> Geelong (dʒəˈlɔŋ is the second largest city in the state Pakenham is an outer satellite suburb 56 km south-east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, currently growing rapidly and in the process of becoming Sale is a cathedral city in the Australian state of Victoria, in the Shire of Wellington. Orbost is a town in the Shire of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, located east of Melbourne where the Princes Highway crosses Batemans Bay is a town and a Bay in the South Coast region of the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Great Western Highway is a highway in New South Wales, Australia. Chippendale is a small inner-city Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Highway 1 is Australia 's coastal Highway joining all mainland's state capitals and coastal towns circumnavigating the entire Australian continent Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a Port Augusta (post code 5700 ( is the fifth most populous City in South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier, Whyalla and Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 The Highway approximately follows the coastline between the three cities, and thus takes quite an indirect and lengthy route, which is 1784 kilometres. By contrast, the National Highway takes the Hume Highway from Sydney to Melbourne, and the Western and Dukes Highways from Melbourne to Adelaide. The National Highway (now part of the AusLink National Network) is a system of Roads connecting all the States and Territories of Australia The Hume Highway / Hume Freeway is one of Australia's most important and notable interstate Highways which runs for 880 km inland between Sydney and Western Freeway (Victoria|Ballarat Road Melbourne The Western Highway is part of the principal route linking the Australian cities of Melbourne and The Dukes Highway is an important 189 kilometre highway corridor in South Australia which links the Australian cities of Adelaide and Melbourne

Existing roads were re-named ‘Princes Highway’ after the visit to Australia in 1920 of the Prince of Wales (later to become King Edward VIII, and after abdicating, the Duke of Windsor). Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar The highway was officially opened on August 10 1920 at Warragul, Victoria. Events 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire Warragul is a rural centre with a population of 12943 people kilometres east-southeast of Melbourne in Victoria.

Route

Princes Highway at Arncliffe, New South Wales looking north towards Sydney skyline in the far background

Princes Highway at Moruya, New South Wales

Princes Highway at Eden, NSW. Arncliffe North Yorkshire Arncliffe is a Suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 Moruya

New South Wales

The Princes Highway starts in the Sydney suburb of St. Peters as a continuation of King Street, as a typical, clogged Sydney single carriageway arterial road with two lanes in either direction. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 St Peters is a Suburb in the inner west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. King Street is today the central thoroughfare of the Suburb of Newtown in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Further south, the Princes Highway is a dual carriageway of two or three lanes in metropolitan Sydney, although in some very short stretches it becomes a single carriageway again.

It heads south through the Illawarra region of New South Wales and the city of Wollongong, though this section of highway has been superseded by the Southern Freeway. The Illawarra is a region in the Australian state of New South Wales. Southern Freeway is a Freeway linking Sydney to Wollongong. It currently is designated as part of National Route 1, however was formerly signposted At the southern end of the Southern Freeway, the highway continues south as an undivided single carriageway, through the South Coast of New South Wales, passing through Nowra and Batemans Bay, and finally crossing the border into Victoria south of Eden. Single carriageway is the British designation for the most common type of Road; one with no physical separation ( Central reservation) between The South Coast refers to the narrow coastal belt from Sydney in the north to the border with Victoria in the south in the south-eastern part of the State of Nowra is a city in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Batemans Bay is a town and a Bay in the South Coast region of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Eden is a town in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.

The Princes highway is considered a dangerous road by the New South Wales NRMA,^[1] with 10 fatalities and 729 people injured on the highway between Sydney and the state border in 2006. NRMA refers to either of two historically-related Australian companies The National Roads and Motorists' Association, known as NRMA Motoring and Services is a member-owned ^[2]

Victoria

See also: Princes Freeway

In Victoria the highway passes through the Gippsland region. Geelong Ring Road|West Gate Freeway|Monash Freeway The Princes Freeway is a, 2 section freeway which links Melbourne to Geelong on the west ( and Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border After Traralgon, the highway is upgraded to freeway standard with two lanes in either direction, passing the Latrobe Valley and continues heading west into the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, to Dandenong. The Latrobe Valley is nestled between the Strzelecki Ranges and the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, Australia. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 See also Mount Dandenong Victoria for the mountain and a different suburb with similar name

While the road continues through Melbourne, the name subsequently changes to Dandenong Road and Queens Road. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 Closer to Melbourne, the road's name becomes Kings Way, and King Street in central Melbourne. The name changes to Curzon Street after leaving the central business district, and later becomes Flemington Road, Racecourse Road, Smithfield Road and Ballarat Road, in that order, before it clearly starts again at Geelong Road. This reason for this confusing alignment of the highway is that former alignments, originating in western Melbourne were renamed to become the highway.

The Princes Highway is beautified in some towns, such as Bairnsdale, Victoria, where the median strip has been made a garden

However, the route of National Route 1 is on the Monash Freeway, which stems from the Princes Freeway in the eastern outskirts of Melbourne and the West Gate Freeway from the Princes Freeway in the western outskirts, and these have been linked together by the southern link of the CityLink tollway. Bairnsdale ( is a town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. With a population at the 2006 census of 11282 it is a major regional centre West Gate Freeway|CityLink|Princes Freeway Monash Freeway is an urban freeway in Victoria, Australia linking Melbourne 's CBD to its southeastern Princes Freeway|CityLink|Monash Freeway West Gate Freeway (formerly the Lower Yarra Freeway) is a freeway in Melbourne, Australia, linking Monash Freeway|Tullamarine Freeway|West Gate Freeway CityLink is a system of tolled urban Freeways in Melbourne, Victoria, This avoids the confusing and congested arrangement of roads that is Princes Highway in central Melbourne.

Heading towards Geelong in a south-west direction, the West Gate Freeway and Geelong Road join together in a junction to become Princes Freeway, which, unusually for an intercity freeway, has enough traffic on it to merit three lanes in either direction. Geelong Ring Road|West Gate Freeway|Monash Freeway The Princes Freeway is a, 2 section freeway which links Melbourne to Geelong on the west ( and On the northern outskirts of Geelong, the freeway standard road ends, and the road becomes a three lane dual carriageway with traffic lights and grade intersections, and is frequently clogged. The Geelong Ring Road is currently under construction to avoid these traffic lights, and to ease traffic congestion inside the city. The Geelong Ring Road (formerly known as the Geelong Bypass and the Geelong Outer Freeway) is a freeway ring road under construction

After Geelong, heading generally west, the highway, now undivided, passes through Colac, before reaching Warrnambool. Colac is a town in the western district of Victoria Australia, situated approximately 150 kilometres south-west of Melbourne on the southern shore of Lake Colac Warrnambool is a regional city with a population of 30392 people on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia, located in the municipality City of Warrnambool This last leg avoids the slower, but scenic Great Ocean Road. The Great Ocean Road is a 273 km stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Warrnambool From Warrnambool, the Princes Highway passes through Portland before crossing the border into South Australia at Mount Gambier. The city of Portland is the oldest European settlement in what is now the state of Victoria, Australia. South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country Mount Gambier (post code 5290 ( is the second most populous City in South Australia after Adelaide, the capital of the state

South Australia

At Mount Gambier the highway takes a more northward track, passing Coorong National Park. Coorong is a national park and lagoon ecosystem in South Australia ( Australia) 156 km southeast of Adelaide. It wanders through Murray Bridge and over the Murray River, becoming a freeway standard road (the South Eastern Freeway), heading into Adelaide, where it loses its freeway status and becomes a divided highway. Murray Bridge (post code 5253 is the fourth most populous City in South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier and Whyalla. The Murray River, or River Murray and sometimes informally referred to as the "Mighty Murray" is Australia 's largest River. The South Eastern Freeway is a 66 kilometre four-lane divided carriageway road in South Australia linking the Adelaide-Crafers Highway to the Princes Highway Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a Beyond, the mostly undivided Port Wakefield Road links Adelaide to the small industrial town it was named after, Port Wakefield, before - confusingly - the Princes Highway continues north again from Port Wakefield to the semi-desert town of Port Augusta, where the highway ends, and splits into the Eyre Highway, heading west to Perth, and into the Stuart Highway, heading north to Darwin. Port Wakefield Road is an important highway connecting the South Australian capital Adelaide to Yorke Peninsula, Port Augusta, northern Port Wakefield ( was the first government town to be established north of the capital Adelaide, in South Australia. Port Augusta (post code 5700 ( is the fifth most populous City in South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier, Whyalla and Location Named after Edward John Eyre the Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia. Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. The Stuart Highway is one of Australia 's major highways it is part of Australia's Highway 1, and Australia's National Highway

Route numbering and junctions

Route numbering
Port Augusta-Port Wakefield, Murray Bridge-Tailem Bend: Formerly
Tailem Bend-Mt. Gambier: Formerly
Mt. Gambier-Corio (Waurn Ponds from 2009): Formerly
Waurn Ponds-Corio (When Geelong Bypass complete): [3] Formerly /
Werribee-Hoppers Crossing: Formerly
Laverton North-Parkville: Formerly /
Brooklyn: (duplex with )
Kingsville-Footscray: (duplex with )
Footscray-Parkville:
Parkville-Melbourne: Formerly
Melbourne-Berwick: Formerly
Malvern: (duplex with )
Caulfield: (duplex with )
Chadstone-Oakleigh: (duplex with )
Berwick-Nar Nar Goon: Formerly
Longwarry-Drouin: Formerly
Drouin-Nilma: Formerly
Moe-Hernes Oak: Formerly
Morwell-Traralgon: Formerly
Traralgon-VIC/NSW Border: Formerly
VIC/NSW Border-Wollongong:
Wollongong-Waterfall: Formerly
Waterfall-Kogarah: Formerly
Kogarah - Sydney:

Major junctions

Main North Road Mallee Highway Dukes Highway Southern Ports Highway Riddoch Highway Glenelg Highway (Casterton Road) Henty Highway Hopkins Highway Great Ocean Road Surf Coast Highway Bellarine Highway via McKillop Street Hamilton Highway Midland Highway Princes Freeway Western Ring Road Ballarat Road Flemington Road West Gate Freeway Nepean Highway EastLink South Gippsland Freeway Monash / Princes Freeway Strzelecki Highway Hyland Highway South Gippsland Highway Great Alpine Road Monaro Highway Snowy Mountains Highway Kings Highway Illawarra Highway Southern Freeway Appin Road Southern Freeway King Georges Road M5 East

See also

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

References

External Links

• RTA Webcam Suburban Sydney