Lasseter Highway

Lasseter Highway is a fully sealed 244 km (152 mi) highway in the Northern Territory of Australia.^[1] It connects Yulara, Kata Tjuta and Uluru east to the Stuart Highway at Erldunda.^[2] The highway is named after Lewis Hubert (Harold Bell) Lasseter, who claimed to have discovered a fabulously rich gold reef (Lasseter's Reef) west of Kata Tjuta.^[3]

Lasseter Highway Northern Territory
Map of central Australia with Lasseter Highway highlighted in red
General information
Type	Highway
Length	244 km (152 mi)
Route number(s)	A4
Major junctions
West end	Tjukaruru Road, Uluru-Katatjuta National Park
	Yulara Drive Giles Street Luritja Road (State Route 3)
East end	Stuart Highway (A87), Erldunda
Location(s)
Major settlements	Yulara, Curtin Springs, Mount Ebenezer
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in the Northern Territory

Junctions

Location	km[4]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Yulara	0	0.0	Tjukaruru Road (C4)	Route 4 continues to Kata Tjuta then to the Western Australian border becoming the Great Central Road
			Yulara Drive
	1.5	0.93	Giles Street
Petermann	95	59	Mulga Park Road
	180	110	Luritja Road (State Route 3)
Ghan	288	179	Stuart Highway (A87) – Adelaide, Darwin
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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  Looking east along the Lasseter Highway toward Erldunda
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  Lasseter Highway at Mount Conner Lookout near Lake Amadeus, March 2010
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  Driving on the Lasseter Highway near the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory.

See also

Australian Roads portal

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in the Northern Territory

References

1. Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. pp. 100–101. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.
2. Department of Transport (April 1998). "Map of all NT Roads" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
3. Brooks, Sally (2 September 2011). "Photo essay" (PDF). Centralian Advocate. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 June 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
4. "Lasseter Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 18 January 2017.