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National Highway 20 (Sturt Highway)

The Sturt Highway is an Australian highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia.

The Sturt Highway is the main highway route between Sydney and Adelaide and has a small duplex of about 200 metres with the Newell Highway (NH39) at Narranderra.

None of the Sturt Highway is constructed as dual-carriageway, and it's easter terminus is at the junction with the Hume Highway (NH31) near Gundagai. The highway heads west, passing through the northwest of Victoria, and linking the towns of Wagga Wagga, Narrandera, Hay, Balranald, Mildura, Renmark and Gawler.

The highway carries the route number National 20 in New South Wales and National Highway A20 in Victoria and South Australia.

The Sturt Highway is named after Charles Sturt, who explored south western New South Wales, the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers and also parts of the deserts of central Australia in the 1820s and 1830s.

Length:
605 km
Route Numbers: duplexes with
 

Between Hay & Balranald
Typical scene from 1977 from the driver's seat of a truck as you travel between Hay & Balranald

Image © David Whiteman

Load Limits Sign
Sign near Narranderra at Gillenbah as the highway heads west from the Newell Highway, 2005.

Image © Rob Tilley