Birdseye Highway is an east–west road across

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. It was named for

Sylvia Birdseye Sylvia Jessie Catherine Birdseye (née Merrill) (1902–1962) was the first woman to hold a commercial bus driving licence in South Australia. She initiated a regular mail and passenger service between Adelaide and the Eyre Peninsula in 1928. S ...

who drove the first bus service to the area from

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for 43 years, starting in 1928, and is the first highway in South Australia to be named for a woman.

Route

Birdseye Highway connects Elliston on Flinders Highway on the west coast, through Cleve and

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to Cowell on the

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near the Spencer Gulf coast.

Major junctions

References

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