Strzelecki Track is a mostly unsealed

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, linking Innamincka to Lyndhurst.

History

The track was pioneered by stockman, drover and cattle thief. Harry Readford, iin 1870, who stole drove 1,000 head of cattle and drove them down the track, selling them at Blanchewater Station and then fleeing to

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. Pastoralists then used it as a stock route in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After gas was discovered by Santos in the 1960s, it started carrying more traffic, as a route to Moomba, and some sections were sealed.

Description

The track links Innamincka to Lyndhurst through the Strzelecki Desert. It is mostly unsealed, but with a few short sealed sections to facilitate overtaking. It is passable to conventional vehicles during the dry season, although caution is required. The track is prone to flooding after heavy rains, and at other times the surface can be corrugated, with loose stones and dust. The Strzelecki Track is linked with the

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via the Walkers Crossing Track, which is closed in summer and only traversible in dry weather. A shorter route is available via a public access road between Moomba and Innamincka, making the distance .

Heritage listings

A number of isolated heritage-listed sites are located nearby to the Strzelecki Track: *

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* Gray's Tree * Well and Whim, Coochilara Waterhole, Merty Merty Station * Old Mulga Bore, Merty Merty Station

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