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Spicers Gap is a mountain pass that is located 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and was the original route over the Great Dividing Range in the area around Brisbane. Today it is included in Main Range National Park and is a popular destination for campers and bushwalkers.
Spicers Gap Road is a heritage-listed road at Spicers Gap Road Conservation Park (in the Main Range National Park), Tregony, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1859 to 1865. It is also known as Spicers Gap Road Conservation Park and Spicers Peak Road. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 23 July 1999. [1]
Although unofficial, the name persists in the road name, [4] St Anne's Hidden Vale (Anglican church), [5] Spicers Hidden Vale (a rural resort), [6] and the Hidden Vale Wildlife Centre (jointly operated by the resort and the University of Queensland). [7] The terrain varies from 70 to 347 metres (230 to 1,138 ft) above sea level.
Stockman Henry Alphen discovered Spicers Gap in 1847. The Spicers Gap Road, used to carry supplies to and from the Darling Downs, is the best remaining example of sophisticated 19th-century engineering in Queensland. In 1840, George Elphinstone Dalrymple settled in the Goomburra Valley. Dalrymple Creek was named after this early settler. By ...
Spicers Peak (Aboriginal: Binkinjoora [1]) is a mountain in Australia. It lies roughly 120 km west of Brisbane in the middle of the Main Range National Park . It is just south of Cunninghams Gap and Mount Mitchell .
The peak to the south of the gap was named by Allan Cunningham in 1828 and today is part of the Main Range National Park. Cunningham named the mountain after the Surveyor-General, Thomas Mitchell. [3] To the north of Cunninghams Gap is Mount Cordeaux, while Spicers Peak is located a small distance to the south east.
Brisbane River: 18.3: 11.4: Geoff Fisher Bridge. This bridge spans the boundary between the localities of Fernvale and Wivenhoe Pocket: Somerset: Wivenhoe Pocket: 20.1: 12.5: Wivenhoe–Somerset Road – north–east – Mount Glorious, Somerset Dam (via Splityard Creek Dam) To Brisbane Forest Park via Northbrook Parkway: Brisbane River: 22.5 ...
Spicers Gap Road required extensive expenditure on maintenance and with the 1871 opening of the Southern railway line from Warwick (the major town on the Darling Downs) to Toowoomba and then by the Main Line railway to Brisbane, Spicers Gap Road was virtually abandoned as rail transport was superior to drays. [4] Allan Cunningham memorial ...