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The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau, which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It has very deep, rich basaltic soils and the main industry is agriculture. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the Barron River, which was dammed to form the irrigation reservoir named Lake Tinaroo. Unlike many other ...
The Curtain Fig National Park is a national park on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia.The National Park is located near Yungaburra. [1] Its most valued features are its once regionally common, now endangered Mabi forests including a huge strangler fig which attracts up to 100 000 visitors per year, locally known as the Curtain Fig Tree, plus a near threatened, locally ...
Lake Eacham (originally Yidyam or Wiinggina) is a popular lake of volcanic origin on the Atherton Tableland of Queensland, Australia, within the World Heritage listed Wet Tropics of Queensland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is within the locality of Lake Eacham in the Tablelands Region local government area.
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In 2006, the Atherton Tableland region was damaged by Cyclone Larry, rated as Category 4 cyclone on the Australian scale. Of the 19 heritage listed sites in Yungaburra, only the roofs of the community hall, police station and one of the bush cottages were badly damaged, as were the front of the Yungaburra Butchery and Gem Gallery sign.
The Gillies Highway permits road access from the Goldsborough Valley near Gordonvale, to Atherton on the Atherton Tableland via the Gillies Range (famous for its 263 corners, and 800 m elevation change in only 19 km of road). [1] The Gillies Highway and range were named after William N Gillies, [2] a former Premier of Queensland.
The Pinnacles (Atherton Tableland) [1] Coordinates: 17°16′00″S 145°33′00″E / 17.26667°S 145.55000°E / -17.26667; 145 The Pinnacles (aka the Seven Sisters) are a series of seven volcanic cinder cones on the Atherton Tableland , near Yungaburra, Queensland , Australia .
The Barron River (Indigenous: Bibhoora [citation needed]) is located on the Atherton Tablelands inland from Cairns in North Queensland, Australia.With its headwaters below Mount Hypipamee, the 165-kilometre (103 mi)-long river with a catchment area of approximately 2,138 square kilometres (825 sq mi) forms through run off from the Mount Hypipamee National Park, flows through Lake Tinaroo, and ...