The Conondale Range is a
mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...
in
Queensland
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, located between
Maleny,
Kenilworth,
Kilcoy and
Jimna. The range is the most westerly part of the
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hinterland and part of the
Great Dividing Range. The highest point on the range is Mount Langley reaching 868 m above sea level. This is also the highest point in the Brisbane River catchment.
Lower foothills of the range around
Kilcoy are used for
grazing
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. Most of the steep forested slopes of the range are state forests and
Conondale National Park
Conondale National Park is 130 km north of Brisbane in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sunshine Coast Hinterland near the town of Conondale in the south east Queensland bioregion.NPRSR, R., 2013Conondale National Park Management Statement 2 ...
. In the south, parts of Stony Creek are preserved in
Bellthorpe National Park
Bellthorpe National Park is a national park located in Bellthorpe, Booroobin and Sandy Creek in both the Moreton Bay Region and Somerset Region of South East Queensland, Australia. The park preserves eucalypt forest and rainforest of the sout ...
.
The mountains are the source of the
Brisbane River
The Brisbane River is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the river, named it after the G ...
. Creeks on the south of the range drain into the
Stanley River and directly into
Lake Somerset. To the north creeks flow into the
Mary River.
History
Dalla (also known as Dalambara and Dallambara) is a language of the Upper
Brisbane River
The Brisbane River is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the river, named it after the G ...
catchment, notably the Conondale Range. Dalla is part of the Duungidjawu language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the
Somerset
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and
Moreton Bay Regional Council
The Moreton Bay Region is a local government area in the north of the Brisbane metropolitan city in South East Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it replaced three established local government areas, the City of Redcliffe and the Shi ...
s, particularly the towns of
Caboolture,
Kilcoy,
Woodford and
Moore.
Fauna
Some 1620 km
2 of the Conondale Range is classified by
BirdLife International
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as an
Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
because it supports an isolated, and the northernmost, population of the
endangered
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eastern bristlebird, which was only discovered in the 1980s.
It is also home large populations of the
black-breasted button-quail,
pale-yellow robin,
paradise riflebird,
regent bowerbird,
green catbird and
Australian logrunner.
The extinct
gastric-brooding frog and endangered
Fleay's barred frog
Fleay's barred frog (''Mixophyes fleayi'') is a large species of frog restricted to small pockets of rainforest in northern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland, Australia.
Distribution
This species has a fragmented distribution in wet f ...
are two frog species endemic to the Conondale Range and parts of nearby regions.
See also
*
Blackall Range
*
Bunya Mountains
*
List of mountains in Australia
References
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Important Bird Areas of Queensland
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