... Stuart Highway, named after the famous explorer John McDouall Stuart, whose route of 1861/62 it roughly follows ... rental vans off sealed roads. So we turned back towards the Stuart Highway. In all, our little detour to see a few paintings was about 425 kilometres. ... flooding point, to stop the whole lot from being washed away. The Stuart Highway is the major road across this continent, yet the "towns" ...

... named 'The Spirit of Adelaide", to cross Australia from North to South (Darwin to Adelaide). In part, this was a tribute to a famous explorer; John McDouall Stuart, who on horseback opened up the centre of Australia in 1861, to the 100th anniversary of the motor car, and to celebrate South Australia’s 150th Jubilee Year Then in ...

... 50,000 years. In 1861-62, John McDouall Stuart led an expedition through Central Australia, to ... Great Britain. The OTL was completed in 1872. It traced Stuart's route and opened up the interior for permanent settlement. ... any significant settlement occurred. Until the 1930s, however, the town was known as Stuart. The telegraph station was sited near what was thought to be a permanent waterhole ...

... . This system was still in use during WW2 and the rest of Australia learned of the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese via the OTL. The original route was based on the discoveries of explorer John McDouall Stuart (1858-62) and the poles were made from termite resistant Cyprus Pine. Soon after construction was completed many of the ...