Eastwood Beach from Bethania Street
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Bethania Street, with caveats.
The chain below runs entirely across land the public has an established right to be on. It is a legal line, not a path: nothing here has been surveyed on the ground.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -27.46893, 153.18376
That is Bethania Street, where the walk below begins — 4.1 km of it. Every link here goes to that coordinate and never to the feature itself, because a driving route to a waterfall is a driving route into the country above one.
- Google Maps one link for a desktop browser, Android or iPhone
- Apple Maps the default on iPhone and Mac
- Your own map app hands the coordinate to an installed app, offline ones included
-27.46893, 153.18376
The record does not say what reaches the start The roads layer leaves trafficability unstated on most of its rows, and it is unstated here. That is an absence of evidence, not an ordinary road: treat the last stretch as unresearched.
The coordinate is where the recorded way begins, read off the same layers as the walk. What the record says about a vehicle is above, and it describes this point rather than the drive to it. Whether the road is sealed, gated, or open today, and where a car may lawfully be left, are none of them things these records say — so treat the last few kilometres as unresearched, and the mapping service's route to them as its own work, not ours.
The chain, leg by leg Computed from cadastral geometry; never walked
| # | Runs along | Parcel / reference | Mapped along it | Distance | Bearing | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Road reserve | 520608 | nothing mapped | 167.3 m | 135.9° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 522584 | nothing mapped | 23.6 m | 158.2° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 520684 | nothing mapped | 94.9 m | 158.3° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Road reserve | 522622 | nothing mapped | 20.3 m | 91.3° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Road reserve | 522698 | nothing mapped | 22.3 m | 214.9° SW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 6 | Road reserve | 520760 | nothing mapped | 67.2 m | 167.0° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 7 | Watercourse bed | 523078 | nothing mapped | 206.2 m | 156.8° SSE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 8 | Watercourse bed | 523116 | nothing mapped | 136.7 m | 118.3° ESE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 9 | Watercourse bed | 488916 | nothing mapped | 45.7 m | 108.2° ESE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 10 | Watercourse bed | 488878 | nothing mapped | 60.1 m | 109.0° ESE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 11 | Watercourse bed | 486180 | nothing mapped | 186.4 m | 12.0° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 12 | Road reserve | 481354 | nothing mapped | 37.0 m | 84.1° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 13 | Road reserve | 480974 | nothing mapped | 20.7 m | 23.3° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 14 | Road reserve | 481278 | nothing mapped | 84.6 m | 27.3° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 15 | Road reserve | 480898 | nothing mapped | 21.2 m | 27.3° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 16 | Road reserve | 480670 | nothing mapped | 80.6 m | 12.9° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 17 | Road reserve | 480632 | nothing mapped | 123.2 m | 288.6° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 18 | Road reserve | 489220 | nothing mapped | 305.2 m | 18.0° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 19 | Road reserve | 489258 | nothing mapped | 80.4 m | 9.1° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 20 | Road reserve | 488308 | nothing mapped | 20.8 m | 354.1° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 21 | Road reserve | 488156 | nothing mapped | 172.4 m | 1.7° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 22 | Road reserve | 1367926 | nothing mapped | 82.9 m | 77.6° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 23 | Road reserve | 1368116 | nothing mapped | 197.8 m | 343.8° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 24 | Road reserve | 1367850 | nothing mapped | 71.7 m | 15.9° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 25 | Road reserve | 1361352 | nothing mapped | 181.9 m | 330.0° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 26 | Road reserve | 1839347 | nothing mapped | 20.1 m | 312.4° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 27 | Road reserve | 1839081 | nothing mapped | 53.6 m | 278.5° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 28 | Road reserve | 1836269 | nothing mapped | 21.8 m | 323.5° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 29 | Road reserve | 1835851 | nothing mapped | 262.6 m | 324.8° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 30 | Road reserve | 1350978 | nothing mapped | 29.6 m | 16.5° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 31 | Road reserve | 1351282 | nothing mapped | 85.5 m | 350.5° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 32 | Road reserve | 1351472 | nothing mapped | 20.3 m | 336.3° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 33 | Road reserve | 1355614 | nothing mapped | 201.6 m | 336.5° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 34 | Road reserve | 1355424 | nothing mapped | 66.3 m | 310.5° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 35 | Road reserve | 1345962 | nothing mapped | 23.2 m | 304.9° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 36 | Road reserve | 1346798 | nothing mapped | 47.6 m | 303.6° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 37 | Road reserve | 1346874 | nothing mapped | 144.2 m | 300.6° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 38 | Road reserve | 1347938 | nothing mapped | 156.2 m | 51.2° NE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 39 | Road reserve | 1333574 | nothing mapped | 83.0 m | 11.5° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 40 | Road reserve | 1333726 | nothing mapped | 102.5 m | 76.1° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 41 | Road reserve | 1373550 | nothing mapped | 197.3 m | 2.9° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 42 | Road reserve | 1373664 | nothing mapped | 26.4 m | 72.0° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 43 | Watercourse bed | 1373854 | nothing mapped | 18.3 m | 98.6° E | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 4071.2 m | Chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class | |||
Every leg above is computed from cadastral geometry. Nobody has walked it, and no part of it is a path on the ground: it is the line along which the public record establishes a right to be. Where a leg names a way, that is what a managing authority has mapped down the same ground — it says nothing more about your right to be there, which the parcel already settled.
Caveats — what has to be said before walking this
- Corner-point junction. Two parcels in the chain meet at a single survey point. They are legally continuous public land, but the junction has no width on the ground.
- Watercourse crossing. The chain crosses a watercourse bed. The bed is State land by statutory inference, there is no structure, and the crossing is off in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 520760 and 523116 is 203.63 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 523078 and 488916 is 130.61 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 523116 and 488878 is 43.54 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 488916 and 486180 is 37.85 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 488878 and 481354 is 106.56 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The gap between the parcels either side of this crossing could not be measured from the geometry, which is a reason for more caution, not less.
Following it on the ground No published way to follow
at least 2 hours out and back
at least 1 hour there at least 1 hour back
45 m up and 55 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 55 m.
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.
No directions are published for this approach. The chain above is a statement about permission, not a path, and turning a run of parcels into "walk north-east for 380 m" would tell you where to walk on evidence nobody holds — including where a way is mapped along it, because what was measured is the chain and not the way. Steps appear here only for a route that follows a surveyed way end to end.
How much climbing Read off the published contour layer
- Total climb
- 45.0 m
- Total descent
- 55.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 19.3% over 51.9 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 42.0 m | 15.0 m |
| 100.6 m | 10.0 m |
| 208.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 1804.0 m | 5.0 m |
| 1854.7 m | 10.0 m |
| 1893.5 m | 15.0 m |
| 1944.0 m | 20.0 m |
| 2037.8 m | 20.0 m |
| 2075.3 m | 20.0 m |
| 2137.0 m | 25.0 m |
| 2141.5 m | 25.0 m |
| 2150.4 m | 25.0 m |
| 2175.3 m | 25.0 m |
| 2181.4 m | 25.0 m |
| 2262.5 m | 25.0 m |
| 2290.1 m | 20.0 m |
| 2315.3 m | 20.0 m |
| 2380.3 m | 20.0 m |
| 2393.4 m | 15.0 m |
| 2399.2 m | 15.0 m |
| 2403.2 m | 15.0 m |
| 2432.2 m | 10.0 m |
| 2467.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 2552.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 2571.3 m | 10.0 m |
| 2584.7 m | 15.0 m |
| 2597.2 m | 15.0 m |
| 2637.6 m | 10.0 m |
| 2743.8 m | 10.0 m |
| 2762.4 m | 10.0 m |
| 2768.6 m | 10.0 m |
| 2797.4 m | 10.0 m |
| 2811.5 m | 10.0 m |
| 2862.0 m | 15.0 m |
| 2890.8 m | 15.0 m |
| 2922.0 m | 10.0 m |
| 2925.2 m | 10.0 m |
| 2931.3 m | 10.0 m |
| 2967.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 3041.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 3042.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 3098.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 3215.7 m | 10.0 m |
| 3229.2 m | 10.0 m |
| 3239.0 m | 10.0 m |
| 3338.6 m | 15.0 m |
| 3340.5 m | 15.0 m |
| 3356.6 m | 15.0 m |
| 3510.7 m | 15.0 m |
| 3566.5 m | 10.0 m |
| 3743.4 m | 5.0 m |
The profile is the height the contour layer already records, read along the same line the legs above describe. It is not a survey of a path: nothing here says the ground between two contours is even, and a layer of 5.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.
The line on the ground
Map
Route map: 43 legs from Bethania Street, 4071.2 m in total.
What the colours mean
- Land — the council area the region is published under
- Water beyond the council boundary
- Freehold or leasehold — no public access
- National park / protected estate — public land
- Road reserve
- Watercourse
- Track recorded by the managing authority
- Contour, every 10 m of height — nothing is implied about the ground between two of them
- Tenure unresolved — treated as no access
- Where your device says you are, shown only if you press the locate button — read as a rough fix, not a position, and never sent anywhere
- A place with a published approach — the pin is a link to it
- A place with none — every one is listed under the map with its verdict in words
- Where a published approach starts — each one has a page of its own below
- The walk — the line the legs below describe, not a surveyed path
- The parcels it crosses — the evidence the walk is lawful
- Watercourse crossing — no structure, off in high flow
Names on the map come from the same official records as the rest of the page — road and track names from the cadastre and the access layer, watercourses and estates from their own layers. A feature the record does not name is left unlabelled rather than guessed at.
Sources, licences and dataset versions for everything this map draws.
Every figure the map would draw — parcel references, distances, bearings and the crossing gap — is written out in full on this page, so nothing is only visible on the map. If the map does not load, nothing has been lost.
What this verdict rests on Grades compose to the weakest link
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The destination sits on the parcel below Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 1373854, recorded tenure "Watercourse". Being at the destination and reaching it are separate questions, and this page answers only the second.
Cadastre and protected-area estate layers Attribution licensed
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Leg 1: 520608 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
167.3 m at 135.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 520608 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 522584 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
23.6 m at 158.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 522584 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 520684 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
94.9 m at 158.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 520684 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 522622 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.3 m at 91.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 522622 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: 522698 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
22.3 m at 214.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 522698 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 6: 520760 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
67.2 m at 167.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 520760 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 7: 523078 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
206.2 m at 156.8°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 523078 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 8: 523116 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
136.7 m at 118.3°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 523116 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 9: 488916 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
45.7 m at 108.2°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 488916 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 10: 488878 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
60.1 m at 109.0°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 488878 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 11: 486180 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
186.4 m at 12.0°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 486180 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 12: 481354 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
37.0 m at 84.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 481354 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 13: 480974 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.7 m at 23.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 480974 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 14: 481278 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
84.6 m at 27.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 481278 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 15: 480898 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
21.2 m at 27.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 480898 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 16: 480670 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
80.6 m at 12.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 480670 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 17: 480632 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
123.2 m at 288.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 480632 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 18: 489220 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
305.2 m at 18.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 489220 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 19: 489258 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
80.4 m at 9.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 489258 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 20: 488308 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.8 m at 354.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 488308 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 21: 488156 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
172.4 m at 1.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 488156 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 22: 1367926 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
82.9 m at 77.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1367926 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 23: 1368116 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
197.8 m at 343.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1368116 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 24: 1367850 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
71.7 m at 15.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1367850 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 25: 1361352 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
181.9 m at 330.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1361352 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 26: 1839347 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.1 m at 312.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1839347 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 27: 1839081 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
53.6 m at 278.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1839081 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 28: 1836269 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
21.8 m at 323.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1836269 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 29: 1835851 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
262.6 m at 324.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1835851 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 30: 1350978 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
29.6 m at 16.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1350978 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 31: 1351282 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
85.5 m at 350.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1351282 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 32: 1351472 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.3 m at 336.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1351472 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 33: 1355614 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
201.6 m at 336.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1355614 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 34: 1355424 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
66.3 m at 310.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1355424 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 35: 1345962 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
23.2 m at 304.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1345962 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 36: 1346798 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
47.6 m at 303.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1346798 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 37: 1346874 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
144.2 m at 300.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1346874 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 38: 1347938 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
156.2 m at 51.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1347938 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 39: 1333574 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
83.0 m at 11.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1333574 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 40: 1333726 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
102.5 m at 76.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1333726 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 41: 1373550 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
197.3 m at 2.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1373550 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 42: 1373664 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
26.4 m at 72.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1373664 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 43: 1373854 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
18.3 m at 98.6°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1373854 Grade statutory_inference
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The chain is only as strong as its weakest link Statutory inference — evidence class
Confidence is not an average. It is the weakest class in the chain above, which is why a single inferred leg holds the whole route at statutory inference.
Composition rule: weakest grade wins Applied at build time
If something goes wrong
Emergency reference — read this to 000
- Location
- Eastwood Beach
- Lot on plan
- 1373854
- Coordinates
- -27.45139, 153.18694 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- beach
What this approach was read from
- Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland LiDAR-derived contours (5 m) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-27
- Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-16