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Good articleGreat Northern Highway has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
August 16, 2014Good article nomineeListed
October 21, 2015WikiProject A-class reviewApproved
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 6, 2014.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Great Northern Highway is the longest highway in Australia?
Current status: Good article

Untitled

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Has the prose of a B-grade but no references. Orderinchaos78 02:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

C-grade it is, then. TRS-80 (talk) 18:53, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sealed?

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The History section states (twice) that sealing of the Great Northern Highway marked the completion of sealing the entire national Highway 1 route. However the Highway 1 page states that large sections are still unsealed, specifically mentioning Queensland. --Gth-au (talk) 22:33, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's a strange one. It did complete it, then they moved Highway 1. Specifically, it used to come along the Barkly Highway through Mt Isa and Cloncurry whereas now it takes a route much closer to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Orderinchaos 23:50, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Start point

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this needs to include that it started at Great Eastern Hwy, the section that is now referred to as "Old Great Northern Hwy" Gnangarra 05:17, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a ref showing GNH starting from GEH:
  • "Plan To Control Traffic". The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954). Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 22 August 1952. p. 20. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
- Evad37 (talk) 14:22, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Perth–Darwin

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The lead section includes "Perth–Darwin National Highway", but the rest of the article has "Perth Darwin" without the dash. It should probably be the same throughout. Mitch Ames (talk) 06:34, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Done, dash removed from lead. - Evad37 [talk] 02:45, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Unresolved A-Class Review comments

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Resolved

I'm copying the yet to be resolved comments from the ACR here as a worklist, so it's easy to find and I don't forget about them. - Evad37 [talk] 00:40, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

History
Future

This completes the review. --Rschen7754 21:42, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Rschen7754: Can you take another look when you get the chance? Cheers, - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't have any issues except for the one noted above. --Rschen7754 17:39, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

new source

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This will be of interest and additional information regarding the development of GNH "PATNE'S FIND". The Murchison Times And Day Dawn Gazette. Vol. 17, , no. 153. Western Australia. 15 August 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 21 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) the article discusses the construction of a new road between Paynes Find and Mount Magnet. Gnangarra 05:30, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]