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Gold Coast Hinterland · Fairview Mountain

Fairview Mountain from Austinville Break

entry is a track 267 m of climb chain confidence B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record fairview-mountain--from-austinville-break
  • A Gazetted / register — The fact is itself a statutory record.
  • B Official spatial record — Read from a maintained government layer.
  • C Statutory inference — Law applied to B-grade records; not ground-truthed.
  • D Community record — Community sources; labelled, never blended into A–C.

Access verdict · tier 1 of 4 · confidence B (official spatial record, the weakest grade in the chain)

A lawful approach from Austinville Break.

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.

  1. 1 · Lawful, nothing to flag Every leg is ground the public may cross, and nothing about the chain needs a warning. Whether a built track runs along it is said separately. This page is here.
  2. 2 · Lawful, with caveats A lawful chain with at least one thing about it that has to be said first.
  3. 3 · Unconfirmed No lawful chain could be established from the public record. No route published.
  4. 4 · No lawful route Enclosed by land the public has no right to cross. No route published.

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

Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature

The start is at -28.18266, 153.30542

That is Austinville Break, where the walk below begins — 1.0 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.

-28.18266, 153.30542

Four-wheel-drive only The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as four-wheel-drive. A vehicle that gets most of the way along a road like this can still be stopped by the last of it.

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

Legs of the computed corridor, in order, with the grade of the record that made each one lawful
# Runs along Parcel / reference Mapped along it Distance Bearing Evidence
1 Track Valley Break nothing mapped 1008.5 m 220.1° SW B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
2 Track Mount Nimmel Break nothing mapped 34.2 m 327.8° NNW B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Total no way mapped 1042.7 m Chain confidence B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

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.

Following it on the ground Every step ends at something you can check

at least 1 hour out and back

at least three quarters of an hour there at least a quarter of an hour back

267 m up and 0 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 0 m.

Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.

Naismith's rule, and what it does not account for

The way reaches this place B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

Valley Break passes 2 m from the recorded point. The gap crosses no contour, which is as level as this layer can evidence — not a survey saying the ground is flat.

Both gaps are small enough that the way is a way to this place, not merely one near it.

  1. Follow Valley Break for 85 m, setting off WSW (247°), to the junction with Valley Break.

    Back: 67° along Valley Break, 85 m from the start.

  2. Follow Valley Break for 82 m, setting off SW (234°), to the junction with Valley Break.

    Back: 54° along Valley Break, 166 m from the start.

  3. Follow Valley Break for 84 m, setting off SW (219°), to the junction with Valley Break.

    Back: 39° along Valley Break, 251 m from the start.

  4. Follow Valley Break for 105 m, setting off SW (223°), to the junction with Valley Break.

    Back: 43° along Valley Break, 355 m from the start.

  5. Follow Valley Break for 99 m, setting off S (191°), to the junction with Valley Break.

    Back: 11° along Valley Break, 454 m from the start.

  6. Follow Valley Break for 91 m, setting off SSW (198°), to the junction with Valley Break.

    Back: 18° along Valley Break, 545 m from the start.

  7. Follow Valley Break for 97 m, setting off SW (227°), to the junction with Valley Break.

    Back: 47° along Valley Break, 643 m from the start.

  8. Follow Valley Break for 81 m, setting off SW (218°), to the junction with Valley Break.

    Back: 38° along Valley Break, 723 m from the start.

  9. Follow Valley Break for 82 m, setting off SW (222°), to the junction with Valley Break.

    Back: 42° along Valley Break, 805 m from the start.

  10. Follow Valley Break for 84 m, setting off SW (226°), to the junction with Valley Break.

    Back: 46° along Valley Break, 890 m from the start.

  11. Follow Valley Break for 80 m, setting off SW (217°), to the junction with Valley Break.

    Back: 37° along Valley Break, 970 m from the start.

  12. Follow Valley Break for 73 m, setting off WNW (283°), to arrive.

    Back: 103° along Valley Break, 1043 m from the start.

1043 m in total, along the way the managing authority publishes. Every step above ends at something the records let you check on the ground. Bearings are true, not magnetic: they match a phone compass with no conversion. In this part of Queensland a magnetic bezel reads about 11° east of them, so an analogue compass needs that taken off before you set it.

What each step ends at, and why B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
junction
A junction with another published way. Unmissable on the ground, and the place a wrong turn happens.
destination
The place itself, which is always where the last step ends.

A cadastral parcel boundary is never one of them. It is invisible on the ground, so a step that ended at one could never be checked — however convenient it looks in the data.

How much climbing Read off the published contour layer

Distance along the route, 0 to 1024.1 m · height 141.0 to 408.0 m Read off 1.0 m contours along the route's own line B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Total climb
267.0 m
Total descent
0.0 m
Steepest sustained
39.9% over 50.1 m
Contour interval
1.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
Contour crossings along the route, in order, as distance along the route against mapped height
Distance along Height
28.8 m 141.0 m
35.8 m 141.0 m
41.2 m 141.0 m
47.8 m 142.0 m
56.5 m 143.0 m
59.1 m 144.0 m
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996.4 m 405.0 m
1000.4 m 406.0 m
1005.4 m 407.0 m
1024.1 m 408.0 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 1.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 2 legs from Austinville Break, 1042.7 m in total.

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

  • The destination sits on Springbrook National Park B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    Parcel 5AP19371, recorded tenure "National Park". 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; see the footer

  • Leg 1: Valley Break carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    1008.5 m at 220.1°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Valley Break Grade B

  • Leg 2: Mount Nimmel Break carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    34.2 m at 327.8°. A track recorded by the managing authority in its published access layer, at the vetting status that layer states.

    Leg reference Mount Nimmel Break Grade B

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Fairview Mountain, Springbrook National Park
Lot on plan
5AP19371
Coordinates
-28.18861, 153.29917 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
mountain

What this page will never do

  • No user pins

    Every fact here traces to a government layer or a statute and carries a grade, A to C. Community names are quarantined at grade D 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

    A tier is a tenure verdict, not a difficulty or safety rating. Unmanaged terrain, cliffs and flash flooding are not in the cadastre. The engine reads land records, not the weather.

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