Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Facctoid of the day

The Australia's longest and straightest road is the Eyre Highway 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nullarbor_warning_signs,_2012.jpg
  Eyre Highway, the road that connects Western Australia to Southern Australia via the Nullarbor Plain, a flat and treeless, giant bed of limestone 200,000 square kilometres in area. With no hills or lakes to obstruct, the highway was laid down as a straight road that runs for 1,675 km from Port Augusta in the east to Norseman in the west, and includes what is said to be the longest straight stretch of road in the worldAustralia: 145.6 kilometres, between the small roadhouse communities of Balladonia and Caiguna (the longest straight road in the world is Highway 10 in Saudi Arabia, which is 162 miles long).

Headsup Presurfer

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