A highway in Australia that stretches for nine hundred miles straight

Geography
A highway in Australia that stretches for nine hundred miles straight

The Eyre Highway contains a legendary stretch of road across the Nullarbor Plain known as the 90 Mile Straight, which holds the record as Australia’s longest dead-straight road.

The Eyre Highway serves as the only sealed link between Western and South Australia, crossing the vast and treeless Nullarbor Plain. A specific section of this route spans 91.1 miles without a single curve, making it one of the longest straight roads in the world.

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