Editing Nullarbor Plain (section)

===Road===
[[File:90mile video gn.mov.webm|thumb|travelling east across Australia's longest stretch of straight road at dusk]]
The [[Eyre Highway]], which connects [[Norseman, Western Australia|Norseman]] in Western Australia to Port Augusta, was carved across the continent in 1941. At first it was little more than a rough track but was gradually sealed over the next thirty years. The last unsealed section of the Eyre Highway was finally sealed in 1976.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/federation/iss/078_road.htm|title=Road links to the East
|publisher=State Library of Western Australia|access-date=2008-09-27}}</ref> Unlike the railway, though, it crosses the plain at its southernmost edge rather than through the centre.

The unsealed Trans Access Road closely follows the [[Trans-Australian Railway]], running all the way from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta and onward. It services the numerous cattle and sheep stations that populate the Western side of the Nullarbor and affords access to rail maintenance teams. It is a brutally rough road and—despite the amount of traffic it carries—is poorly maintained.