Barkly Highway

Barkly Highway

Northern Territory
–Queensland
Barkly Highway; Northern Territory–Queensland
	Barkly Highway in Queensland
General information
Type	Highway
Length	754 km (469 mi)
Route number(s)	National Highway 66 (Tennant Creek – NT/Qld Border; future route B66); National Highway A2 (NT/Qld Border – Cloncurry); National Route 83 (Mount Isa – Cloncurry);
Former; route number	National Highway 66 (Entire route) ; National Highway A2 (NT/Qld Border – Cloncurry)
Major junctions
West end	Stuart Highway, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
	Tablelands Highway (Northern Territory State Route 11); Diamantina Developmental Road (National Route 83); Burke Developmental Road (National Route 83);
East end	Landsborough Highway, Cloncurry, Queensland, duplexed with ; Flinders Highway
Location(s)
Major settlements	Camooweal, Mount Isa
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in the Northern Territory; ; Highways in Queensland;
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The Barkly Highway is a national highway in Queensland and the Northern Territory in Australia.^[1] It is the only sealed road between Queensland and the Northern Territory.^[2]^[3] The highway is named after the Barkly Tableland, which in turn was named by explorer William Landsborough in December 1861 after Henry Barkly, the then Governor of Victoria.^[4]

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^ "Place Names Register". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Archived from the original on 11 March 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.