Pacific Highway (Australia)
Pacific Highway | |||
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| View of the Pacific Highway from Wattley Hill Road, New South Wales (c. 2007) | |||
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| Type | Highway | ||
| Length | 779 km (484 mi) | ||
| Gazetted | August 1928 (NSW, as Main Road 10) December 1930 (QLD) | ||
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| Former route number | See Former route numbers | ||
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| North end | Pacific Motorway | ||
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| South end | Maitland Road | ||
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| Northeast end | Stewart Avenue | ||
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| Southwest end | Mann Street | ||
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| North end | Wisemans Ferry Road | ||
| South end | Warringah Freeway | ||
| Location(s) | |||
| Major settlements | Ballina, Central Coast, Coffs Harbour, Kempsey, Port Macquarie, Newcastle, Taree, Sydney Brisbane, Gold Coast | ||
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The Pacific Highway is a national highway and major transport route of 790 kilometres (490 mi) along the east coast of Australia from Sydney to Brisbane. It is an integral part of Highway 1 which circumnavigates the Australian continent. At its inception, the highway was a single carriageway between Sydney and Brisbane. In Australian culture and as a tourist drive, it remains so. Over time, segments of the highway have been upgraded, realigned, or renamed. Between 1996 and 2020, sections of the highway were upgraded to controlled-access highway (motorway) standards.