Gregory Highway
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| Gregory Highway Gregory Developmental Road |
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| Length | 912 km |
| General direction | North-South |
| From |  Gulf Developmental Road, 61km east of Georgetown, Queensland |
| via | Lynd Junction, Charters Towers, Belyando Crossing, Clermont, Emerald |
| To |  Dawson Highway, Springsure, Queensland |
| Allocation | Gulf Developmental Road - Charters Towers:
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| Major Junctions |  Kennedy Developmental Road Flinders Highway Peak Downs Highway Capricorn Highway |
The Gregory Highway is a state highway in Queensland that serves the major coal-mining centres of Central Queensland. The highway was named after Augustus Gregory, an early explorer.
It runs southward from outside Georgetown off the Gulf Developmental Road, via Lynd Junction ("The Lynd") and Charters Towers, to Springsure, over 900 kilometres away.
North of Clermont it is known as the Gregory Developmental Road or the Great Inland Road and it is a very lonely road composed of one-laned bitumen used mainly by road trains, travelling through very monotonous scrub-land.
[edit] List of towns along the Gregory Highway
- Lynd Junction
- Charters Towers
- Belyando Crossing
- Clermont
- Capella
- Emerald
- Springsure
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