[5] It was named after the Pyrenees ranges, the set of low mountain ridges the road travels through.

To evade the new law, ship's captains landed many Chinese in the south-east of South Australia, from where the new arrivals travelled more than 400 km across country to the Victorian goldfields, along tracks including what is now Pyrenees Highway.

[7] Construction of a replacement Glenmona Bridge as a wrought-iron lattice-girder deck-truss bridge over Bet Bet Creek at Bung Bong was completed in 1871, and still stands, minus the deck, today; it replaced a timber structure from 1857 which was washed away by severe floods in 1870.

It is the third-oldest of its type in Victoria, is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register,[8] and stands just to the south of the modern-day bridge used today by the highway.

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