Overland Route (Australia)

Overland Route (Australia)

The Overland Route is a route to Australia and East Asia. The route crosses the European continent. It was inaugurated by Thomas Fletcher Waghorn in 1845, and was modified on the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. The route now crosses the following locations:

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.


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