Road Photos & Information: Northern Territory

Crossing from South Australia into the Northern Territory. Image © Tourism NT.

You've arrived at the road photos and information section that covers the Northern Territory.

In the Northern Territory, as is the case with the rest of Australia, the roads are classified into different categories, and are also numbered for maintenance purposes and also navigation purposes.

NT's roads are managed by the Department of Planning and Infrastructure. The DPI has begun slowly implementing and converting the territory's routes over to alphanumeric numbering, inline with most of the rest of Australia.

With an area of 1.4 million square kilometres, the Northern Territory covers 15 per cent of Australia's land mass yet contains just 1 per cent of her population. The territory's location and small population mean air and sea services are expensive and limited and rail is under-developed. Consequently, road transport is central to the prosperity and welfare of the people of the Top End. *

To check out the routes used in the Northern Territory and photos of them, click on one of the section names below:

National Highways	National Routes	State Routes
The green and gold route markers indicate routes which are part of the National Highway System. They indicate the most direct routes between major cities.	The black on white markers indicate highways around Australia which are not part of the National Highway System but are still of some national signifcance.	The white on blue shields indicate urban and interregional routes.

* Information courtesy of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government

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