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McPherson Range
The McPherson Range is an extensive mountain range, a spur of the Great Dividing Range, heading in an easterly direction from near Wallangarra to the Pacific Ocean coastline. It forms part of the Scenic Rim on the border between the states of New South Wales and Queensland. Further west of the McPherson Range is the Main Range. Towards the coast the range continues into the Border Ranges and other mountainous terrain formed by the Tweed Volcano. The Australian electoral Division of McPherson was named after the mountain range. Geography Wilsons Peak is considered to be the intersection of the Great Divide and the McPherson Range. There are five waterfalls in this part of the range including Teviot Falls, Queen Mary Falls, Daggs Falls and Browns Falls . Other notable mountains in the range include Mount Lindesay and Mount Barney. The range is an area of significant scenic beauty and contains a multitude of national parks, including Mount Barney National Park, Border Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Running Creek, Queensland
Running Creek is a rural Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Running Creek had a population of 147 people. It borders New South Wales. Geography The locality is bounded to the south by the ridgeline of the McPherson Range (which defines the Queensland borders, Queensland border with New South Wales). The watercourse Running Creek (from which the locality takes its name) rises in Lamington, Queensland, Lamington on the northern slopes of the McPherson Range and enters the locality from the south-west (Mount Gipps, Queensland, Mount Gipps) and then flows north through the locality exiting to the north-west (Rathdowney, Queensland, Rathdowney), where it immediately becomes a tributary of the Logan River (). Running Creek has the following mountains: * Grass Tree Knob () * Lawn Hill () * Mount Chinghee () Running Creek has the following mountain passes: * Gradys Gap Gate () * Richmond Gap () There are a numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of McPherson
The Division of McPherson is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. History The division was created in 1948 and is named after the McPherson Range, which forms one of the divisional boundaries. McPherson is located in south-east Queensland, and originally included the entire Gold Coast region, stretching as far as the Scenic Rim and Southern Downs. However, the area's dramatic population growth has seen the seat shrink with successive redistributions, culminating in 1983, when most of its northern portion became Moncrieff. McPherson now incorporates the south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney–Brisbane Rail Corridor
The Sydney–Brisbane railway corridor is a long standard-gauge railway corridor that connects the state capitals of Brisbane (Queensland) and Sydney (New South Wales) in Australia. Description The corridor consists of the first of the Main North Line from Sydney Central to Maitland, and then the entire of the North Coast line to Roma Street, Brisbane. The NSW TrainLink XPT passenger service operates along the route, as do a number of other freight and passenger services. History Originally the corridor was made up of the Queensland Rail narrow gauge Southern line and the New South Wales Government Railways standard gauge line that met at Wallangarra at a break-of-gauge in 1888. It was not until 1930 that the coastal, standard gauge North Coast line was extended from Casino to Brisbane making through services possible, using a rail ferry for the river crossing in Grafton until the Grafton Bridge opened in 1932. p1 The old Main Northern railway line which went to Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gondwana Rainforests Of Australia
The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, formerly known as the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, are the most extensive area of subtropical rainforest in the world. Collectively, the rainforests are a World Heritage Site with fifty separate reserves totalling from to Brisbane. Background The Gondwana Rainforests are so-named because the fossil record indicates that when Gondwana existed it was covered by rainforests containing the same kinds of species that are living today. Not all Gondwanan rainforests in Australia are located in the New South WalesQueensland region; the largest Gondwanan rainforest in Australia is located in Tasmania's Tarkine wilderness. The number of visitors to the Gondwana rainforest reserves in New South Wales and Queensland is about 2 million per year. The World Heritage status of the region was created and negotiated initially in 1986, with the area extended in 1994, following a nomination which was prepared in 1992 by the Rainforest Conservation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Heritage
A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). World Heritage Sites are designated by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity". To be selected, a World Heritage Site must be a somehow unique landmark which is geographically and historically identifiable and has special cultural or physical significance. For example, World Heritage Sites might be ancient ruins or historical structures, buildings, cities, deserts, forests, islands, lakes, monuments, mountains, or wilderness areas. A World Heritage Site may signify a remarkable accomplishment of humanity, and serve as evidence of our intellectual history on the planet, or it might be a place of great natural beauty. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamington National Park
The Lamington National Park is a national park, lying on the Lamington Plateau of the McPherson Range on the Queensland/New South Wales border in Australia. From Southport on the Gold Coast the park is to the southwest and Brisbane is north. The Lamington National Park is known for its natural environment, rainforests, birdlife, ancient trees, waterfalls, walking tracks and mountain views. The park protects parts of the Eastern Australian temperate forests. Protected areas to the east in Springbrook National Park and south along the Tweed Range in the Border Ranges National Park around Mount Warning in New South Wales conserve similar landscapes. The park is part of the Shield Volcano Group of the World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia inscribed in 1986 and added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2007. The park is part of the Scenic Rim Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance in the conservation of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Barney National Park
Mount Barney National Park is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 90 km southwest of Brisbane. It amalgamated the adjacent Mount Lindesay (Queensland), Mount Lindesay National Park in 1980. It is part of the Scenic Rim Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance in the conservation of several species of threatened birds.BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Scenic Rim. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-10-03. Geography Mount Barney (Queensland), Mount Barney, Mount Maroon, Mount May and Mount Lindesay (Queensland), Mount Lindesay rise majestically above the surrounding farmlands in Mount Barney National Park on the Queensland borders, Queensland/New South Wales border. These rugged peaks are the remains of the ancient Focal Peak Shield Volcano which erupted 24 million years ago. Mount Barney (1359m) is the second-highest peak in south-east Queensland and has some very rare and uniq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Parks
A national park is a natural park in use for conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of 'wild nature' for posterity and as a symbol of national pride. The United States established the first "public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people", Yellowstone National Park, in 1872. Although Yellowstone was not officially termed a "national park" in its establishing law, it was always termed such in practice and is widely held to be the first and oldest national park in the world. However, the Tobago Main Ridge Forest Reserve (in what is now Trinidad and Tobago; established in 1776), and the area surrounding Bogd Khan Uul Mountain (Mongolia, 1778), which were restricted from cultivation in order to prot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Lindesay (Queensland)
Mount Lindesay is a rural locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. It borders New South Wales. In the , Mount Lindesay had a population of 3 people. The mountain of the same name (height is on the south-west boundary of the locality () on the border between Queensland and New South Wales. Geography The mountain lies on the Queensland-New South Wales border, approximately 140 km south west of Brisbane, Australia. Mount Lindesay is one of a number of peaks in the McPherson Range, and is remarkable for its tiered summit, the eroded remnant of lava flows from the nearby Focal Peak shield volcano. The mountain is situated within the Mount Barney National Park in Queensland and the Border Ranges National Park in New South Wales. Apart from the northern slopes, the rest of the peak is covered in dense rainforest, and the summit is frequently in cloud and mist. The Mount Lindesay Highway enters the locality from the north-east ( Palen Creek), passes to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Browns Falls
The Browns Falls is a plunge waterfall on the Spring Creek (South Branch) in Killarney, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. Location and features The falls are located approximately east of Killarney in the Darling Downs, just north of the Queensland/New South Wales border. The falls descend approximately as it plunges over basalt columns into the valley floor. Access to the falls is possible by walking approximately from the Browns Picnic Area. Four other waterfalls are located in the area surrounding Killarney, including the Teviot Falls in the north at Teviot Gap, Queen Mary Falls The Queen Mary Falls is a Waterfall#Types, plunge waterfall on Spring Creek, in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. Location and features The falls are situated in the Main Range National Park and descend from the McPherson Rang ..., Daggs Falls and Upper Browns Falls. See also * List of waterfalls of Queensland References Waterfalls of Queensland Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daggs Falls
The Daggs Falls is a plunge waterfall on Spring Creek that is located in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. Location and features The falls are located east of the town of and descend from the McPherson Range, north of the Queensland/New South Wales border. The falls are situated directly on the roadside and there is a lookout provided. Four other waterfalls are located in the area surrounding Killarney, including the Queen Mary Falls, Teviot Falls, Browns Falls The Browns Falls is a plunge waterfall on the Spring Creek (South Branch) in Killarney, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. Location and features The falls are located approximately east of Killarney in the Darling Downs, just nort ... and Upper Browns Falls. See also * List of waterfalls of Queensland References Waterfalls of Queensland Darling Downs Plunge waterfalls {{Waterfall-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Mary Falls
The Queen Mary Falls is a Waterfall#Types, plunge waterfall on Spring Creek, in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. Location and features The falls are situated in the Main Range National Park and descend from the McPherson Range near the Queensland/New South Wales border. They are located south-east of and east of the town of . The falls formed when water erosion by streams created gorges through layers of basalt and resistant trachyte. The falls are currently retreating as large blocks at the bottom of the falls were not evident in photos taken in the 19th century. Facilities at the falls include toilets, tables and fireplaces. Four other waterfalls are located in the area surrounding Killarney, including the Teviot Falls, Daggs Falls, Browns Falls and Upper Browns Falls. See also * List of waterfalls of Australia#Queensland, List of waterfalls of Queensland References External links Queen Mary Falls Circuit * Waterfalls of Queensland Darling Dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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