Public Trails Computed from official land records

Brisbane Official spatial — evidence class · Brisbane · QLD

Russels Top

No lawful route approaches were tested; none carried a right of passage

Gazetted name -27.12223, 153.38832 Gheebulum Kunungai (Moreton Island) National Park · National Park mountain

Access verdict · Unconfirmed · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

No lawful approach to this place could be established from the public record.

Every entry point tested ends at land the public has no established right to cross. This page publishes the refusal and the reason, and no route line of any kind.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

What this place is A definition, then the record

A mountain — high ground rising clearly above what surrounds it, named by the register at a single coordinate somewhere on its high ground. Where the top of a mountain is, exactly, is not something a single coordinate settles, and whether the last of the climb can be walked is not something any register records.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Russels Top. The layer maps far more creeks than it has ever named, so that is a gap in the record rather than dry ground.

The point falls inside Gheebulum Kunungai (Moreton Island) National Park, designated National Park. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.

The rock at the surface is sand, mapped as Qpd/2-QLD (Qpd/2) , pleistocene in age. The survey describes it as: Quartz sand; parabolic sand dunes Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps one ecosystem over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

  • 100% — Eucalyptus planchoniana +/- Corymbia gummifera, E. racemosa subsp. racemosa, Banksia aemula low woodland on dunes and sand plains, especially southern sand mass islands. Usually deeply leached soils 12.2.10 · Of concern Official spatial — evidence class

On the record — what the registers actually say Sources, licences and dataset versions

What each register holds about this place
Claim What the record says Evidence
Name "Russels Top" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Two or more records disagree about the tenure at this point, so nothing is asserted. Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 36AP23572 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Brisbane, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate Gheebulum Kunungai (Moreton Island) National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 17,050 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 22 Oct 2021; first gazetted 11 Aug 1966; no encumbrance recorded. Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse No named watercourse in the snapshot runs within range of this point. The layer maps many creeks it has never named. —
Feature Recorded as a mountain in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Russels Top and the start of the one published approach to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

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.

Is there a track to it Measured in plan and in section

The way stops short of this place Official spatial — evidence class

Telegraph Track passes 410 m from the recorded point. There is 40 m of climb or drop between the two, read at a 5.0 m contour interval. The contours give the height between them and never which way round it is, so this is a separation and not a descent to plan.

The way passes further off than anything the record can call a way to this place — or, where being above or below a feature is no answer at all, it is on the wrong level of it. Two measurements are used rather than one precisely so neither distance nor height can settle this on its own. Nothing here says how to close the remaining gap: no authority has surveyed a way across it, and a bearing off the end of a track is exactly the guess this site refuses to make.

Approaches — one page each 1 published of 6 computed

6 ways in were computed and 1 is published here. The rest either reach the same ground from a few hundred metres away — the same drive and the same walk — or reach no lawful chain at all, which is only worth saying when nothing else does.

Russels Top from Refuse Station Access

Official spatial · Unconfirmed — evidence class russels-top--from-refuse-station-access
Verdict
Unconfirmed
One way
not published
Caveats
none

No lawful chain was established from this entry. The route page states why, and publishes no legs.

Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date

The authority that manages this area publishes its alerts as data, and it published none for here in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open" — a snapshot is a moment, and conditions move faster than one.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Quandamooka People #4 — this point falls inside the registered party boundary. Official spatial — evidence class

A cultural heritage party boundary and a native title claim are different legal things. This page never conflates them, and it publishes neither as a permission.

All land and waters in Queensland carry a duty of care under s.23 of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) — including here. Cultural heritage site locations are restricted by law (ss.38–46), deliberately, for site protection. This site holds party boundaries only and will never republish site locations. Check the public register and, where in doubt, seek guidance from the Aboriginal party for the area.

Searching a register does not of itself satisfy the duty of care.

Rules here — derived from tenure National Park · statutory inference

Conduct rules follow from tenure and the legislation that governs it. Nothing specific is inferred here, which means you should read the signs, not that no rules apply.

Statutes relied on: Nature Conservation Act 1992 (Qld) and its regulations for protected estate; Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 for watercourse beds; Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) ss.23 and 38–46 for the duty of care and for why site locations are never republished here.

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Russels Top, Gheebulum Kunungai (Moreton Island) National Park
Lot on plan
36AP23572
Coordinates
-27.12223, 153.38832 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
mountain

What this place was read from