Souvenir postal cover issued by Australia Post on 15 Nov
1978, to commemorate the official opening of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne.
Includes 20c "Little Grebe" stamp, a postal stamp incorporating
official West Gate Bridge Authority logo and a stamp of an Australia Post mail
van with the words the "First Official Mail Across West Gate".
The West
Gate Bridge is a steel box girder cable-stayed bridge in
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It spans the Yarra River, just
north of its mouth into Port Phillip, and is a vital link between the
inner city (CBD) and Melbourne's western suburbs; with the industrial suburbs
in the west and with the city of Geelong, 80 kilometres (50 mi) to the
south-west. It is one of the busiest road corridors in Australia.
The main
river span is 336 metres (1,102 ft) in length, and the height above the
water is 58 metres. The total length of the bridge is 2,582.6 metres
(8,473.1 ft). It is the second longest in Australia behind
the Houghton Highway and its twin the Ted Smout Memorial Bridge,
and is twice as long as theSydney Harbour Bridge. It is one of the highest
bridges in Australia, most notably trailing that of the more
iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The
bridge passes over Westgate Park, a large environmental and recreational
reserve created during the bridge's construction. The bridge carries up to
200,000 vehicles per day.
Thank you
Maria.
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