The Buntine Highway is a 581-kilometre highway in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It runs from the Victoria Highway via Top Springs and Kalkarindji and then to Nicholson, Western Australia.^[2] The section from the Victoria Highway to Kalkaringi is a single-lane sealed road with a few dual-lane sections; the remaining section is unsealed.^[3] Funding for maintenance is provided by the Northern Territory government.^[4]

Quick Facts Buntine Highway Western Australia–Northern Territory, General information ...

Buntine Highway Western Australia –Northern Territory
Map of north-western Australia with Buntine Highway highlighted in red
General information
Type	Rural road
Length	581 km (361 mi)
Route number(s)	National Route 96 (WA/NT border – Victoria Highway) B96 (future route number in Northern Territory)
Former route number	National Route 80 (Nicholson – Top Springs)
Major junctions
West end	Duncan Road, Nicholson, Western Australia
	Buchanan Highway (National Route 80)
East end	Victoria Highway (National Highway 1), Delamere, Northern Territory[1]
Location(s)
Major settlements	Kalkarindji, Top Springs

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The highway was named in 1996 after Noel Buntine who established a livestock transportation business known as Buntine Roadways in the 1950s in northern Australia.^[1]

The Northern Australia Roads Program announced in 2016 included the following project for the Buntine Highway.

This article contains a bulleted list or table of intersections which should be presented in a properly formatted junction table. (December 2021)

The only major intersection on this road is with the Buchanan Highway (National Route 80) at Top Springs.

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