Lasseter Highway is a fully sealed highway in the
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...
of
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
. It connects
Yulara,
Kata Tjuta and
Uluru
Uluru (; ), also known as Ayers Rock ( ) and officially gazetted as UluruAyers Rock, is a large sandstone monolith. It outcrop, crops out near the centre of Australia in the southern part of the Northern Territory, south-west of Alice Spri ...
east to 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 ...
at
Erldunda. The highway is named after
Lewis Hubert (Harold Bell) Lasseter, who claimed to have discovered a fabulously rich gold reef (
Lasseter's Reef) west of
Kata Tjuta.
Junctions
File:LasseterHighway.JPG, Looking east along the Lasseter Highway toward Erldunda
File:2010-03 Lasseter Highway.jpg, Lasseter Highway at Mount Conner Lookout near Lake Amadeus
Lake Amadeus (together with Lake Neale, Pitjantjatjara: ''Pantu'' ("salt lakes")) is a large salt lake in the southwest corner of Northern Territory of Australia, about north of Uluru. The smaller Lake Neale is adjacent to the northwest. I ...
, March 2010
File:Lasseter Highway1437.jpg, Driving on the Lasseter Highway near the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...
.
See also
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Highways in Australia
*
List of highways in the Northern Territory
References
Highways in the Northern Territory
Uluru
Lasseter's Reef
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