Mallee 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
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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 Pinaroo-Loxton and Pinaroo-Bordertown Road in Pinaroo. 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.

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

External links

Media related to Mallee Highway at Wikimedia Commons

Road infrastructure in South Australia
Freeways	Northern Expressway Port River Expressway South Eastern Freeway Southern Expressway
Interstate highways	Barrier Highway Dukes Highway Eyre Highway Mallee Highway Princes Highway Stuart Highway Sturt Highway
State highways	Augusta Highway Gawler bypass road Horrocks Highway Main South Road Port Wakefield Road Riddoch Highway Victor Harbor Road
Arterial roads	Adelaide–Mannum Road Barndioota Road Barossa Valley Way Birdseye Highway Browns Well Highway Cameron Highway Copper Coast Highway Flinders Highway Flinders Ranges Way Glenelg Highway Gorge Road Goyder Highway Horrocks Highway Karoonda Highway Lincoln Highway Ngarkat Highway Olympic Dam Highway Onkaparinga Valley Road Playford Highway RM Williams Way Southern Ports Highway Spencer Highway St Vincent Highway Strathalbyn Road Strathalbyn–Goolwa Road Thiele Highway Tod Highway Wellington Road Wilkins Highway Wimmera Highway Yorke Highway
Outback tracks	Anne Beadell Highway Birdsville Track Colson Track Gunbarrel Highway Mount Davies Road Oodnadatta Track Strzelecki Track

Road infrastructure in Victoria
Freeways	Calder Freeway Goulburn Valley Freeway Hume Freeway Princes Freeway (Geelong Ring Road) Western Freeway
Highways	Bass Highway Bellarine Highway Borung Highway Calder Highway Calder Alternative Highway Glenelg Highway Goulburn Valley Highway Hamilton Highway Henty Highway Hopkins Highway Kiewa Valley Highway Loddon Valley Highway Mallee Highway Maroondah Highway McIvor Highway Melba Highway Midland Highway Monaro Highway Murray Valley Highway Nepean Highway Northern Highway Omeo Highway Princes Highway Pyrenees Highway South Gippsland Highway Strzelecki Highway Sturt Highway Sunraysia Highway Surf Coast Highway Warburton Highway Western Highway Western Port Highway Wimmera Highway
Bypass routes	Old Hume Highway Old Princes Highway Princes Highway (Geelong)
Tourist routes	Great Alpine Road Great Ocean Road Murray Valley Highway Phillip Island Road