Friday, 28 November 2014

The Long And Lonely Eyre Highway: World's Longest Straight Road

image credit: Chris Guy

Imagine a drive, a thousand miles long with no turns or bends, across a vast featureless plain with repetitive landscape, and hundreds of kilometers between towns and service stations.

That's Eyre Highway, the road that connects Western Australia to Southern Australia via the Nullarbor Plain, a flat and treeless, giant bed of limestone 200,000 square kilometres in area.

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