Birdseye Highway

Road across Eyre Peninsula in South Australia

West end

East end

Coordinates

33°39′13″S 134°54′26″E / 33.653482°S 134.907140°E / -33.653482; 134.907140 (West end)
33°40′45″S 136°51′18″E / 33.679217°S 136.855050°E / -33.679217; 136.855050 (East end)

General informationTypeHighwayLength198 km (123 mi)^[1]Route number(s)

B91 (1998–present)Major junctionsWest end

Flinders Highway
Elliston, South Australia

Tod HighwayEast end

Lincoln Highway
Cowell, South AustraliaLocation(s)RegionEyre Western^[2]Major settlementsLock, CleveHighway system

Highways in Australia
National Highway • Freeways in Australia
Highways in South Australia

Birdseye Highway is an east–west road across Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It was named for Sylvia Birdseye who drove the first bus service to the area from Adelaide for 43 years, starting in 1928,^[3] and is the first highway in South Australia to be named for a woman.^[4]

Route

Birdseye Highway connects Elliston on Flinders Highway on the west coast, through Cleve and Lock to Cowell on the Lincoln Highway near the Spencer Gulf coast.^[5]

Major junctions

LGA^[6]	Location^[1]^[5]	km^[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Elliston	Elliston	0	0.0	Flinders Highway (B100) – Streaky Bay, Ceduna	Western terminus of highway and route B91
	Mount Wedge	30	19	Kyancutta-Mount Wedge Road – Kyancutta
	Lock	89	55	Tod Highway (B90) – Kyancutta, Cummins
Cleve	Cleve	163	101	Cleve Road (north) – Kimba Arno Bay Road (south) – Arno Bay
Franklin Harbour	Cowell	198	123	Lincoln Highway (B100) – Cowell, Whyalla, Port Augusta	Eastern terminus of highway and route B91, 6 km west of Cowell
Route transition

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Google (30 May 2022). "Birdseye Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
^ "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
^ "Birdseye Highway & Memorial". Retrieved 19 May 2019.
^ "BIRDSEYE, Sylvia Jessie Catherine". HerStory Archive. National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Location SA Map viewer with suburb layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
^ "Location SA Map viewer with LGA layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.

Road infrastructure in South Australia

Expressways

South Eastern Freeway
Port River Expressway
Northern Expressway
North–South Motorway (incomplete, under construction)
Southern Expressway

Interstate highways

State highways

Arterial roads

Outback tracks

Transport in South Australia; List of road routes in South Australia

Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

Cities

Townships

Governance

Federal division	Grey (part)
State electoral districts	Flinders Giles Stuart
Local Government	Ceduna DC Cleve DC Elliston DC Franklin Harbour DC Kimba DC Lower Eyre Peninsula DC City of Port Augusta (part) City of Port Lincoln Streaky Bay DC Tumby Bay DC City of Whyalla Wudinna DC

Protected areas

Coastal features

West coast	Anxious Bay Calca Peninsula Cape Blanche Cape Carnot Cape Catastrophe Cape Finniss Cape Radstock Cape Wiles Coffin Bay Peninsula Jussieu Peninsula Mount Dutton Bay Point Avoid Point Labatt Point Weyland Point Whidbey Slade Point Sleaford Bay Fishery Bay
East coast	Cape Burr Cape Donington Cape Hardy Lipson Cove Lucky Bay Memory Cove Point Boston Point Lowly Yorkey Crossing

Islands adjoining Eyre Peninsula coast

West coast	Baird Bay Jones Island Unnamed island, Baird Bay Eba Island Grantham Island Nicolas Baudin Island Pigface Island
East coast	Bicker Isles Boston Island Curlew Island Entrance Island Lipson Island Little Island Louth Island Tumby Island

Infrastructure

Highways	Birdseye Highway Eyre Highway (part) Flinders Highway Lincoln Highway Tod Highway
Railways	BHP Whyalla Tramway Coffin Bay Tramway Eyre Peninsula Railway Port Lincoln railway station
Other	Joy Baluch AM Bridge Tod Reservoir