Wilkins Highway

Wilkins Highway

South Australia
Wilkins Highway; South Australia
	West end East end
Coordinates	33°16′01″S 138°09′11″E / 33.266894°S 138.153149°E (West end); 33°24′41″S 138°53′34″E / 33.411325°S 138.892765°E (East end);
General information
Type	Highway
Length	85.3 km (53 mi)
Route number(s)	(1998–present); (Warnertown–Jamestown); (1998–present); (Jamestown–Hallett);
Major junctions
West end	Augusta Highway; Warnertown, South Australia
	Main North Road; RM Williams Way;
East end	Barrier Highway; (Hallett, South Australia
Location(s)
Region	Yorke and Mid North
Major settlements	Gladstone, Caltowie, Jamestown
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in South Australia; ; ;

Wilkins Highway is an east–west route across the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. It runs from Augusta Highway south of Port Pirie east to Barrier Highway at the town of Hallett,^[3] near where Sir Hubert Wilkins was born.

Major intersections

LGA^[4]	Location^[1]^[3]	km^[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Port Pirie	Warnertown	0	0.0	Augusta Highway – Warnertown	Western terminus of highway and route B79
		6.8	4.2	Hughes Gap Road – Crystal Brook
		8.6	5.3	Beetaloo Valley Road – Beetaloo Valley
Northern Areas Council	Huddleston	11.6	7.2	Possum Park Road – Laura
	Gladstone	19.2	11.9	Horrocks Highway (B82) – Wilmington, Clare
	Caltowie	35.4	22.0	Laura–Caltowie Road – Laura	eastbound traffic turns right; westbound traffic turns left
	Jamestown	47.6	29.6	RM Williams Way (B80 north, south/B79 north) – Spalding, Orroroo, Peterborough	Route B79 continues west along Wilkins Highway, north along RM Williams Way Western terminus of route B78
Regional Council of Goyder	Hallett	85.3	53.0	Barrier Highway – Burra, Broken Hill	Eastern terminus of highway and route B78
Route transition

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v t e Road infrastructure in South Australia
Expressways	South Eastern Freeway Port River Expressway Northern Expressway North–South Motorway (incomplete, under construction) Southern Expressway
Interstate highways	Barrier Highway Dukes Highway Eyre Highway Mallee Highway Princes Highway Stuart Highway Sturt Highway
State highways	Augusta Highway Gawler Bypass Horrocks Highway Main South Road Port Wakefield Highway Riddoch Highway Victor Harbor Road
Arterial roads	Adelaide–Mannum Road Alexandrina 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 Stott Highway Strathalbyn Road The Outback Highway Thiele Highway Tod Highway Wellington Road Wilkins Highway Wilmington–Ucolta Road Wimmera Highway Yorke Highway
Outback tracks	Anne Beadell Highway Birdsville Track Colson Track Gunbarrel Highway Maralinga to Emu Road Mount Davies Road Oodnadatta Track Strzelecki Track Vokes Hill Corner to Cook Road
Transport in South Australia; List of road routes in South Australia