Protected areas
Nature Reserves 3 estates holding 11 places. Every one carries the Act it was declared under on its
own page, in the register's words.
What this page will never do No user pins
Every fact here traces to a government layer or a statute, and each one says which:
gazetted, official spatial, or statutory inference. Community records are quarantined and
labelled as such. Nothing on this page was dropped on a map by a stranger.
No invented lawfulness
Where tenure cannot be confirmed from the public record, the page says so instead of
endorsing the route or quietly hiding it. Where no lawful corridor exists at all, none is
published — the refusal is the answer.
No safety pretence
An access verdict is about tenure, not difficulty or safety. Unmanaged terrain, cliffs and
flash flooding are not in the cadastre. The engine reads land records, not the weather.
Sources, licences and dataset versions cga-place-names 2026-08-23
nsw-contours 2026-08-24
nsw-local-government-areas 2026-08-24
nsw-npws-estate 2026-08-23
nsw-roads-and-tracks 2026-08-24
qld-ach-party-boundaries 2026-08-16
qld-dcdb-cadastre 2026-08-22
qld-lidar-contours 2026-08-22
qld-local-government-areas 2026-08-23
qld-park-alerts 2026-08-16
qld-place-names 2026-08-16
qld-protected-areas 2026-08-16
qld-qpws-access 2026-08-16
qld-regional-ecosystems 2026-08-22
qld-roads-and-tracks 2026-08-22
qld-surface-geology 2026-08-22
qld-watercourse-lines 2026-08-22
qld-waterfall-points 2026-08-16
qld-world-heritage 2026-08-23
Every figure on this site is computed from the snapshots above. Nothing here is live: a dataset
is only as current as its snapshot date, and a date that has aged is a reason to distrust the
page, not the source.
Composite Gazetteer of Australia — © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) (Cth-Attribution)
; New South Wales contours (Digital Topographic Database) — © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services) (CC-BY-4.0)
; New South Wales local government area boundaries — © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services) (CC-BY-4.0)
; NPWS managed land (New South Wales) — © State of New South Wales (CC-BY-4.0)
; New South Wales road and track centrelines (Digital Topographic Database) — © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services) (CC-BY-4.0)
; OpenStreetMap waterway=waterfall nodes (naming overlay only) — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (extract of 2026-08-16) (ODbL-1.0)
; Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party boundaries (boundaries only) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland LiDAR-derived contours (5 m) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; QPWS park alerts (regional RSS) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Protected areas of Queensland (estate polygons) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; QPWS access (walking tracks, roads, facilities) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland remnant regional ecosystems (biodiversity status) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland roads and tracks (named road centrelines) — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland detailed surface geology (1:100 000) — © State of Queensland (Geological Survey of Queensland) (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland watercourse lines and water bodies — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
; Queensland waterfall points (Foundation Data) — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) (CC-BY-4.0)
; World heritage areas of Queensland — © State of Queensland (CC-BY-4.0)
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Shipped with the site rather than consulted for a verdict, and credited separately for that
reason: Noto Sans Regular map label glyphs (Latin ranges) — © The Noto Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1)
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NSW bed-passage policy — none claimed: Crown Land Management Act 2016 (NSW) s 13.3 removes a riparian owner's entitlement to the bed only where the bed was reserved from sale or lease before s 172 of the Crown Lands Act 1989 commenced — a title question no spatial layer answers, so New South Wales carries no region-wide bed passage. No route published here walks the bed of a watercourse.
QLD bed-passage policy (grade C): Land Act 1994 (Qld) s 13A — land on the watercourse side of a non-tidal boundary is the property of the State, despite the alienation of the land. State ownership of a bed is not a public right of way: this is
a statutory inference made by this site, not a finding of any court or authority.
What counts as arriving:
for a cave, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates
the two
;
for a lookout, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates
the two
;
for a mountain, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 5 m of height separates
the two
;
for a peak, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 2 m of height separates
the two
;
for a waterfall, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates
the two
;
for a waterhole, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates
the two
. Both gaps are published on every route, so the rule can be checked against the answer.
A leg of a chain is named for a way where a mapped way runs within 25 m of the leg for at least 70% of its length. That tolerance absorbs
the difference between a straight leg and a bending survey; it is not a claim about how
accurately any position is known, and naming a way changes no verdict.
Community names come from OpenStreetMap under ODbL and are quarantined as community records: they are
labelled as community record and never blended into the graded chain that produces a verdict.