Isis Highway

The Isis Highway is a state highway in southern Queensland, Australia.[1] The highway is relatively short, and runs for 135 kilometres (84 mi) in a north-east / south-west direction between the Burnett Highway at Ban Ban Springs and Bundaberg.[2] The Isis Highway links the cattle farming districts of the North Burnett with the sugar producing Bundaberg and Fraser Coast regions.

Isis Highway

Queensland
Isis Highway (green and black)
General information
TypeHighway
Length135 km (84 mi)
Route number(s)
  • State Route 3
  • (Bundaberg - Childers)
  • State Route 52
  • (Childers - Ban Ban Springs)
Major junctions
NE endBourbong Street,
Bundaberg, Queensland
  Bruce Highway
SW end Burnett Highway, Ban Ban Springs, Queensland
Location(s)
Major settlementsChilders, Biggenden
Highway system

The highway takes its name from the Isis River, which flows between Maryborough and Childers. The highway also passes through a significant amount of the former Isis Shire local government area, of which Childers was the administrative centre.

The Isis Highway is signed as State Route 52 between Ban Ban Springs and Childers, and State Route 3 between Childers and Bundaberg.

Principal towns along the Isis Highway

Major intersections
LGALocationkmmiDestinationsNotes
BundabergBundaberg00.0 Hinkler Avenue (State Route 3) - north - Bundaberg North / Gin Gin /
Bourbong Street - east - Bundaberg CBD		Northern end of Isis Highway (State Route 3). State Route 3 continues north over the Burnett River via the Don Tallon Bridge, and then west to Gin Gin
Apple Tree Creek45.128.0 Bruce Highway (Queensland Highway A1) - north-west - Gin Gin /
south-east - Childers		Northern concurrency terminus with Bruce Highway
Wide Bay-BurnettChilders51.532.0 Bruce Highway (Queensland Highway A1) - south-east - HowardSouthern concurrency terminus with Bruce Highway.
51.532.0 Bruce Highway (Queensland Highway A1) - south-east - HowardIsis Highway continues south as State Route 52.
North BurnettBiggenden97.360.5 Maryborough Biggenden Road (State Route 86) - south-east - Brooweena
Ban Ban Springs13584 Burnett Highway (State Route A3) - north - Gayndah / south - Goomeri
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  • Isis Highway between Apple Tree Creek and Bundaberg

See also

References
  1. Queensland Government - Department of Transport and Main Roads - Maps
  2. Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.


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