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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 98. Chapters: Airport Drive (Melbourne), Ballarat Road, Melbourne, Bulleen Road, Burwood Highway, Calder Freeway, Chandler Highway, CityLink, Dandenong Valley Highway, Dingley Arterial Project, Docklands Highway, East-West road connection, Eastern Freeway (Melbourne), Eastern Highway, EastLink (Melbourne), Frankston Freeway, Greensborough Highway, Healesville Freeway, Hoddle Highway, Hume Highway, Koo Wee Rup bypass, List of highways in Melbourne, List of old road routes in Melbourne, Victoria, M80 Ring Road, Melbourne, Maroondah Highway, Melton Highway, Monash Freeway, Moorooduc Highway, Mornington Peninsula Freeway, Mountain Highway, Nepean Highway, North East Link, Outer Metropolitan Ring Road, Peninsula Link, Plenty Valley Highway, Princes Freeway, Princes Highway, Ringwood Bypass, Route 10, Melbourne, Route 40, Melbourne, South Gippsland Freeway, Sydney Road, Melbourne, Thompsons Road, Melbourne, Tullamarine Freeway, Warburton Highway, Warrigal Road, Westall Road, Westernport Highway, Western Freeway (Victoria), West Gate Freeway, Yarra Bank Highway. Excerpt: The Hume Highway/Hume Freeway is one of Australia's major inter-city highways, running for 807 kilometres (501 mi) between Sydney and Melbourne. It is part of the Auslink National Network and is a vital link for road freight to transport goods to and from the two cities as well as serving Albury-Wodonga and Canberra. The main alternative route between Sydney and Melbourne is the Princes Highway which follows the coast for most of its length. Other inland alternate routes include the Olympic Highway route between Albury and Sydney via Cowra and Bathurst, and also the Federal / Monaro Highway route via Canberra which links with the Hume Highway near Goulburn and the Princes Highway in East Gippsland. The coast of New South Wales from the Queensland border to the Victorian border is separated from the inland by an escarpment, forming the eastern edge of the Great Dividing Range. There are few easy routes up this escarpment. To climb from the coast to the tablelands the Hume Highway uses the Bargo Ramp, a geological feature which provides one of the few easy crossings of the escarpment. In the first twenty years of European settlement at Sydney (established 1788), exploration southwest of Sydney was slow. This area was heavily wooded at the time, especially the "Bargo brush," which was regarded as almost impenetrable. In 1798 explorers (Wilson, Price, Hacking, and Collins) reached the Moss Vale and Marulan districts, but this was not followed up. Any settlement would have to await the construction of an adequate access track, which would have been beyond the colony's resources at the time, and would have served little purpose as a source of supplies for Sydney, due to the time taken to reach Sydney. In 1804, Charles Throsby penetrated through the Bargo brush to the country on the tablelands near Moss Vale and Sutton Forest. On another expedition in 1818, he reached Lake Bathurst and the "Goulburn Plains." Many of the early explorers would most likely have used aborigina
