What is Lasseter Highway?
[[File:2010-03 Lasseter Highway.jpg|thumb|Lasseter Highway near [[Mount Conner]].]] [[File:Lasseter Highway.jpg|thumb|Marker for the Lasseter Highway.]] The '''Lasseter Highway''' is a [[highway]] in the [[Northern Territory]] of [[Australia]]. It is a sealed road that runs for {{convert|244|km|abbr=on}}. It connects [[Yulara, Northern Territory|Yulara]], [[Kata Tjuṯa]] and [[Uluṟu]] to the [[Stuart Highway]]. It is the major access route for [[tourist]]s heading to [[Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Steve Parish|title=Australian Touring Atlas|publisher=Steve Parish Publishing|location=Archerfield, Queensland|year=2007|isbn=978-1-74193-232-4|page=100}}</ref> The highway is named after the [[Prospecting|prospector]] [[Harold Bell Lasseter]], who claimed to have discovered a rich [[gold]] deposit ([[Lasseter's Reef]]) west of Kata Tjuṯa. The highway begins in [[Erldunda]], a [[roadhouse]] and [[hotel]], on the Stuart Highway (N87). The Stuart Highway connects [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] in the north and [[Adelaide]] in the south and is therefore one of Australia's major highways. From Erldunda, the Lasseter Highway leads west along the southern side of the [[Basedow Range|Basedow]] and [[Kernot Range]]s. After about 110&nbsp;km, next to the Kernot Range, there is the [[junction]] with the [[Luritja Road|Luritja Highway]] (S3), which leads north to [[Kings Canyon (Australia)|Kings Canyon]]. Another 25&nbsp;km towards the southwest is a rest area that has a view of [[Mount Conner]]. A further 22&nbsp;km away is the [[Curtin Springs]], a [[cattle]] [[Station (agriculture)|station]] with a roadhouse. A further 100&nbsp;km west along the highway is the tourist town [[Yulara]]. After Yulara, the road meets the [[Great Central Road]], a dirt road that leads into [[Western Australia]] through the [[Petermann Ranges]] and across the [[Gibson Desert|Gibson]] and [[Great Victoria Desert]]s. There are [[petrol station]]s at Erldunda (at the start of the highway), [[Mount Ebenezer]] (km&nbsp