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Forrest Highway is a 95-kilometre-long
(59mi) highway in Western Australia's Peel
and South West regions, extending Perth's
Kwinana Freeway from east of Mandurah down
to Bunbury. The highway begins in Ravenswood, continues around
the Peel Inlet to Lake Clifton, and heads south to finish at Bunbury's
Eelup Roundabout. Old Coast Road was the original Mandurah
Bunbury route, dating back to the 1840s. Since the 1980s the state
government has been upgrading the main Perth to Bunbury route by
extending Kwinana Freeway south from Perth, and constructing a
dual carriageway on Old Coast Road north of Bunbury, including
bypasses around Australind, Dawesville, and Mandurah.
Construction of the New Perth Bunbury Highway project, which
became Forrest Highway and the final Kwinana Freeway extension,
began in December 2006, and the new highway was opened on 20
September 2009. Within one year of opening, the number of road
accidents in the area had decreased significantly, but tourism and
businesses in the towns on bypassed routes were also affected. In
June 2014, Forrest Highway was extended south to Bunbury by
renaming much of Old Coast Road as well as Australind Bypass as
part of the highway. (Fullarticle...)
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The Day the Earth Smiled refers to the date July 19, 2013, on which the Cassini spacecraft turned to image Saturn, its entire
ring system, and the Earth from a position where Saturn eclipsed the Sun. Cassini imaging team leader and planetary scientist
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