Kamilaroi Highway

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Kamilaroi Highway is a state highway in New South Wales. It has been given the national route number 37. Its status as a highway is fairly new.

It runs 620 km from Willow Tree on the New England Highway in central New South Wales in a north-western direction until it reaches Bourke on the Mitchell Highway. The Kamilaroi Highway offers the most direct route from the Great Divide to the Outback.

The highway is named after the Kamilaroi Indigenous Australian people who live in the area.

Five kilometres north of Boggabri is the spectacular landmark, Gin’s Leap, which was known in Cobb and Co coach days as “The Rock”.

It is said that a young Aboriginal girl, promised to an elder of her tribe, the Kamilaroi, ran away with a young aboriginal man from another tribe. While being pursued by Kamilaroi tribesmen, the lovers jumped to their death from somewhere along the top of this rock.

List of towns on the Kamilaroi Highway

* Willow Tree
* Quirindi
* Gunnedah
* Boggabri
* Narrabri
* Wee Waa
* Walgett
* Brewarrina
* Bourke

See also

* Highways in Australia
* List of highways in New South Wales

References

* [http://www.kamilaroihighway.com.au/ Kamilaroi Highway website] - website
* [http://www.visitnarrabri.com.au/default.aspx?PageID=422 Kamilaroi Highway ] - Narrabri information website