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;

The Barkly Highway is a national highway in Queensland and the Northern Territory in Australia. It is the only sealed road between Queensland and the Northern Territory. The highway is named after the Barkly Tableland, which is turn was named by explorer William Landsborough on December 1861 after Henry Barkly, the then Governor of Victoria.

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