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| end_b = | est = | through = | route = | exits = | location = }} The road known as the Bonang Highway (also the ''Old Bonang Highway'') is a rural, C class, road in south-eastern Australia, running generally south-north. It links the Gippsland region coastal town of Orbost, Victoria and the highland Monaro region town of Bombala, New South Wales. Denoted as rural route C612, it passes through the settlements of Nurran, Goongerah, and Bonang in Victoria and the town Delegate in New South Wales in the Snowy Mountains of the Great Dividing Range. The road runs through valleys to the east of the Snowy River, that flows through Orbost. However, the Princes Highway crosses the river at Orbost and the Bonang Highway begins on the river's eastern bank, running parallel to it for only about . As of January 2015, the surface of the Bonang Highway is asphalt except for two sections of well-maintained gravel totaling approximately . These are an section between 3 and 14 kilometres south of Bonang and a section of in length between the New South Wales-Victoria border and Delegate. Due its patially unsealed surface and its narrow, twisting route, following steep sides of ridges and creeks, the road provides a slower journey (nearly 3 hours, as opposed to 1.75 hours) compared with the equal distance of the Princes Highway (A1 - Orbost to Cann River) and Monaro Highway (B23 - Cann River to Bombala) route. The loop from Orbost to Bombala and returning via the Monaro Highway is well known to motorbike riders as a scenic but difficult ride. ==History== The road was established to allow access for people going to the gold mining in the Bendoc area south of Delegate after 1852,〔(Bendoc Historic Loop Drive ), Department of Sustainability and Environment - Victoria, July 2008, accessed 17 February 2011〕 and as an access road for logging and other forestry activities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is still primarily used for access to forest plantations in the Victorian State Forest areas adjoining the Snowy River National Park to its west and Errinundra National Park to its east. The road gives access to the Valley of the Giants area where the old-growth forest is a tourist attraction.〔(Saving East Gippsland forests ), Victorian National Parks Association, accessed 17 February 2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bonang Highway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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