Moogerah Peaks is a National Park in the

Fassifern Valley Fassifern Valley is a valley of the Scenic Rim in South East Queensland. Towns found in the valley include Harrisville, Kalbar, Roadvale, Warril View and Aratula. Fassifern Valley is known as a carrot-producing area, as well as for growin ...

South East Queensland South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, metropolitan, political and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million people out of the state's population of 5.1 million. Th ...

, Australia, located approximately 70 km south west of the state capital

Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...

. The 676-hectare park consists of four separate protected areas which surround volcanic peaks and rocky cliffs near

Moogerah Dam The Moogerah Dam is a mass concrete double curvature arch dam with an un-gated spillway across the Reynolds Creek that is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. The main purposes of the dam are for irrigation of the Reynold ...

Environment

Because the peaks are relatively inaccessible the natural vegetation of the area has remained intact. The vegetation is mostly open

eucalypt Eucalypt is a descriptive name for woody plants with capsule fruiting bodies belonging to seven closely related genera (of the tribe Eucalypteae) found across Australasia: ''Eucalyptus'', ''Corymbia'', ''Angophora'', '' Stockwellia'', ''Allosyn ...

forest with montane

heath A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler a ...

on exposed rock faces. In sheltered areas there are some patches of rainforest. The park is part of the

Scenic Rim The Scenic Rim is a group of forested mountain ranges of the Great Dividing Range, located south of Brisbane agglomeration, straddling the border between south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. In 2021, the S ...

Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance in the conservation of several species of

threatened Threatened species are any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future. Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of ''critical depensa ...

birds.BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Scenic Rim. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-10-03.

Moogerah Peaks

The Moogerah Peaks are a small set of

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually highe ...

s with a volcanic origin. The summits of Mount French, Mount Edwards,

Mount Moon Mount Moon is a lightly timbered, dome-shaped mountain in the Scenic Rim, Queensland, Australia (). Its Indigenous name is Kibbobum. The mountain rises above sea level and is part of the Teviot Range and is within the Moogerah Peaks National P ...

and

Mount Greville Mount Greville is a cone-shaped and deeply fissured mountain in South East Queensland, Australia. The mountain rises 720 m above sea level and is part of the Moogerah Peaks National Park. It lies approximately south west of Brisbane just out ...

are each contained within four separate sections of the park. On Mount French the

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s at

Frog Buttress Frog Buttress is a cliff on the north-west side of Mount French, in the Moogerah Peaks National Park near the town of Boonah in Queensland, Australia. It became famous when local rock climbers Rick White and Chris Meadows discovered it in 1 ...

are one of the state's most popular areas for rockclimbers. The National Park surrounds

Lake Moogerah The Moogerah Dam is a mass concrete double curvature arch dam with an un-gated spillway across the Reynolds Creek that is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. The main purposes of the dam are for irrigation of the Reynol ...

, and access to the Mount Edwards portion of the park can be had across the dam wall and spillway of the lake. Palm Gorge is situated on Mount Greville. This narrow gorge contains a nearly pure stand of Piccabeen Palms. To the west and south of this park lies the

Main Range National Park The Main Range is a mountain range and national park in Queensland, Australia, located predominantly in Tregony, Southern Downs Region, southwest of Brisbane. It is part of the World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (formerly k ...

preserving part of the

. The flora of the peaks is diverse including rainforests, sclerophyll woodlands and montane heath in the rocky exposed areas. Endemic flora species occur on the peaks that can be found nowhere else on earth, such as the Moogerah Peaks Leionema and Mount Greville Reed Grass.Blaik, Jenise. (2000) Moogerah Peaks National Park Fire Strategy Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service - Fire Management System

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* {{National Parks of Queensland National parks of South East Queensland Protected areas established in 1982 Important Bird Areas of Queensland 1982 establishments in Australia

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Moogerah Peaks

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