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Queensland General highways map of Queensland. Queensland, being the second largest (by area) state in Australia, is also the most decentralised. Hence the highways and roads cover most parts of the state unlike the sparsely populated Western Australia. Even Queensland's outback is well served as it is relatively populated.
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 .
Clumber has the following mountains, five of them on the Great Dividing Range (from north to south): . Mount Mathieson (Mount Alphen 683 metres (2,241 Spicers Peak (also known as Barguggan) 1,222 metres (4,009
Mount Mitchell (Aboriginal: Cooyinnirra [1]), is a twin-peaked volcanic mountain with an elevation above sea level of 1,168 metres (3,832 ft), [2] located in the Main Range, is about 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and immediately south of Cunninghams Gap.