The Buntine Highway is a 570 kilometre highway in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Australia.
It runs from the Victoria Highway via Top Springs and Kalkaringi and then to Halls Creek, Western Australia. The section from the Victoria Highway to Kalkaringi is a single lane sealed road; the remaining section is unsealed.
It was named after Noel Buntine in 1996. Noel entered the transport industry in the early 1950s and went on to establish Buntine Roadways, at one time considered to be the largest livestock transport company in the world.
Noel and his company pioneered the use of road trains and even initially the trucking of cattle.
The Buntine is still an important cattle transport road, and while it is now tarmac from Kalkaringi up to the Victoria Highway, it is still, for the most part, a much-patched strip of road one-car wide.
The highway passes through Killarney, Montejinni and Camfield stations before pulling into Kalkaringi, and then cutting through Riveren, Inverway and Bunda stations before reaching the WA border.
Home to primarily pastoral stations and Aboriginal communities (and the Top Springs roadhouse at the corner of the Buntine and Buchanan highways), the Victoria River District is an incredibly diverse landscape. Broadly labelled as tropical savannah, the country takes in 'stone country' of rocky escarpments, slopes and plateaux, as well as black soil plains, flat scrublands and gently rolling hills covered with high grasses, a few trees and rocky outcrops.
