The Buchanan Highway,

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, Australia, runs west from Birdum on the

Stuart Highway Stuart Highway is a major Australian highway. It runs from Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, in the Northern Territory, via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, to Port Augusta in South Australia; it has a distance of . Its northern and souther ...

crossing the Buntine Highway at Top Springs and eventually connecting with the

Victoria Highway The Victoria Highway links the Great Northern Highway in Western Australia with the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory. The highway is a part of the Perth– Darwin National Highway link. It is signed as National Highway 1, and is par ...

near Timber Creek. it was unsealed for its entire length, at . Funding for maintenance is provided by the

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. The highway was named in 1966 after

Nathaniel Buchanan Nathaniel Buchanan (1826 – 23 September 1901) was an Australian pioneer pastoralist, drover and explorer. Early life Buchanan was born near Dublin, and was of Scottish descent the son of Lieutenant Charles Henry Buchanan, and his wi ...

, a pioneering drover who first brought cattle overland from

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to the Northern Territory in 1877 via the

Murranji Track The Murranji Track or Murranji Stock Route is a stock route in the Northern Territory of Australia and it runs between Newcastle Waters and Top Springs, Northern Territory, Top Springs. The track was primarily operational between 1904 and the la ...

; which the highway largely replaced. The highway originally ran from the

west to Top Springs, then

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and then to the southern end of the Duncan Road which is in Western Australia. In 1996 the portion from Top Springs to Duncan Road was renamed the Buntine Highway, while the road from Top Springs which joins the

near Timber Creek was renamed as the Buchanan Highway.

Major intersections

The only major intersection on this road is with the Buntine Highway (National Route 96) at Top Springs.

Adjacent properties

The

cattle station In Australia and New Zealand, a cattle station is a large farm ( station is equivalent to the American ranch), the main activity of which is the rearing of cattle. The owner of a cattle station is called a '' grazier''. The largest cattle stati ...

, Murranji Station, borders the Buchanan Highway, north-west of Elliot. It has an outstation with access to the highway.

References

* ''The Reader's Digest Great World Atlas'', 1975 * ''Times Atlas of the World, Concise Edition'', (Australia and New Zealand Edition), 8th Edition 2002. {{Road infrastructure in Northern Territory Highways in the Northern Territory

Major intersections

Adjacent properties

See also

References