Princes Highway
The Princes Highway is a segment of Australia's Highway 1 that extends from Sydney to Adelaide, via Melbourne.
The Princes Highway starts in the centre of Sydney and heads south though the Illawarra region of New South Wales and the city of Wollongong. It continues south, passing though Nowra and Batemans Bay finally crossing the border into Victoria south of Eden.
In Victoria the highway passes though the Gippsland region, the LaTrobe Valley and continues heading west into Melbourne. Leaving Melbourne, and still heading generally west, the highway passes though Geelong, before stiking inland toward Warrnambool. This last leg avoids the slower, but very pitcuresque Great Ocean Road. From Warrnambool, the Princes Highway passes through Portland before crossing the border into South Australia at Mount Gambier.
At Mount Gambier the highway takes a northward tack, passing the most beautiful Coorong National Park. The last leg takes us through Murray Bridge and over the mighty Murray River into Adelaide.
By contrast, the National Highway takes the Hume Highway from Sydney to Melbourne, and the Western Highway from Melbourne to Adelaide.
