Roads: Central Arnhem Highway
The road that no-one wants to fund..
The Central Arnhem Road is thTThe Central Arnhem Road is the only land route into Nhulunbuy, and more than 85 per cent of it is still unsealed. A companion to Planes, Roads, Automobiles, this paper traces the road from mining survey track to its gazettal in 1991, through wet-season closures, cyclones, accidents and wrecks. Homelands lie north and south of it. The linking roads to Mata Mata, Nyinyikay, Rorruwuy, Gi'kal, Barrakia, Bäniyala, Gapuwiyak, Bawaka and Buymarr are roads in their own right, and many other communities along them are not named. No royalty or profit stream is dedicated to keeping them open.
The Central Arnhem Road is the only land route into Nhulunbuy, and more than 85 per cent of it is still unsealed. A companion to Planes, Roads, Automobiles, this paper traces the road from mining survey track to its gazettal in 1991, through wet-season closures, cyclones, accidents and wrecks. Homelands lie north and south of it. The linking roads to Mata Mata, Nyinyikay, Rorruwuy, Gi'kal, Barrakia, Bäniyala, Gapuwiyak, Bawaka and Buymarr are roads in their own right, and many other communities along them are not named. No royalty or profit stream is dedicated to keeping them open.
34 pages, about 13,500 words including notes.
34 pages, about 13,500 words including notes.he eThThe Central Arnhem Road is the only land route into Nhulunbuy, and more than 85 per cent of it is still unsealed. A companion to Planes, Roads, Automobiles, this paper traces the road from mining survey track to its gazettal in 1991, through wet-season closures, cyclones, accidents and wrecks. Homelands lie north and south of it. The linking roads to Mata Mata, Nyinyikay, Rorruwuy, Gi'kal, Barrakia, Bäniyala, Gapuwiyak, Bawaka and Buymarr are roads in their own right, and many other communities along them are not named. No royalty or profit stream is dedicated to keeping them open.
34 pages, about 13,500 words including notes.e Central Arnhem Road is the only land route into Nhulunbuy, and more than 85 per cent of it is still unsealed. A companion to Planes, Roads, Automobiles, this paper traces the road from mining survey track to its gazettal in 1991, through wet-season closures, cyclones, accidents and wrecks. Homelands lie north and south of it. The linking roads to Mata Mata, Nyinyikay, Rorruwuy, Gi'kal, Barrakia, Bäniyala, Gapuwiyak, Bawaka and Buymarr are roads in their own right, and many other communities along them are not named. No royalty or profit stream is dedicated to keeping them open.
34 pages, about 13,500 words including notes. only land route into Nhulunbuy, and more than 85 per cent of it is still unsealed. A companion to Planes, Roads, Automobiles, this paper traces the road from mining survey track to its gazettal in 1991, through wet-season closures, cyclones, accidents and wrecks. Homelands lie north and south of it. The linking roads to Mata Mata, Nyinyikay, Rorruwuy, Gi'kal, Barrakia, Bäniyala, Gapuwiyak, Bawaka and Buymarr are roads in their own right, and many other communities along them are not named. No royalty or profit stream is dedicated to keeping them open.
34 pages, about 13,500 words including notes.
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