Muirs Highway is a

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n highway linking Manjimup and Mount Barker on the

Albany Highway Albany Highway links Western Australia's capital city Perth with its oldest settlement, Albany, Western Australia, Albany, on the state's South coast of Western Australia, south coast. The highway travels through the southern Wheatbelt (Weste ...

. It is signed as State Route 102 and is long. It provides a shorter distance between Manjimup and Albany. It is a lonely highway surrounded with

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and jarrah forests with no settlements in between except the small farming settlement of

Rocky Gully Rocky Gully is a small town in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The town is located along the Muirs Highway, about from the Kent River The Kent River is a river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually f ...

. It is primarily used as a freight route for plantation timber trucks and interstate long vehicles servicing the horticultural areas of the south west. The road is a two way, single carriageway bitumen surfaced highway. The highway passes through several localities including Manjimup, Dingup, Nyamup, Strachan, Murtinup, Rocky Gully and Mount Barker. Muirs Highway was named after brothers Thomas and John Muir, the first European settlers in the Warren district, who settled at ''Deeside'' in 1852 and built a rush hut there in 1856. Muirs Hwy

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{{coord, 34.38311, S, 116.45027, E, source:placeopedia, display=title Highways in rural Western Australia

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