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Scenic Rim Regional B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record · Gold Coast Hinterland · QLD

The Summit

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

Gazetted name A — provenance grade A: Gazetted / register -28.16778, 153.18861 peak
  • 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 3 of 4 · confidence B (official spatial record, the weakest grade in the chain)

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.

  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.
  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. This page is here.
  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.

What this place is A definition, then the record

A peak — a defined high point rather than a broad summit — a pinnacle, a plug, a rock. Many are bare rock with no walked way to the top at all, and no register records which ones those are, so nearness to the coordinate is emphatically not the same as standing on it.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of The Summit. 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 outside every protected-area estate in the snapshot.

On the record — what the registers actually say Dataset versions in the footer

What each register holds about this place
Claim What the record says Evidence
Name "The Summit" is a gazetted register entry. A — provenance grade A: Gazetted / register
Tenure Resolved to Freehold, recorded as "Freehold". B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Parcel 43RP152179 B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Council area The register files this place under Scenic Rim Regional. That is the authority's own filing of the place, not a boundary this site tested the point against. B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Estate This point falls outside every protected-area estate polygon in the snapshot.
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 peak in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

Where it is

Map

Context map for The Summit: parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around the point.

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 passes this place B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

The nearest published way passes 35 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.

The way comes close enough to be a way to this place without the record establishing that it ends at it. A register gives a feature one coordinate and a feature is not a point, so the two measurements above are the whole of the claim: how far off the way passes, and what height separates the two. Nothing here says the last of that gap can be crossed. Whether there is a lawful way to that way is a separate question, and the approaches below are where it is answered.

Approaches — one page each 2 published of 17 computed

17 ways in were computed and 2 are 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.

The Summit from Bibaringa Close

B · tier 4 — provenance grade B: Official spatial record the-summit--from-bibaringa-close
Verdict
tier 4
One way
not published
Caveats
none

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

The Summit from Gwingana Road

B · tier 3 — provenance grade B: Official spatial record the-summit--from-gwingana-road
Verdict
tier 3
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 in the footer

No alert was published for this area in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open": many managing authorities publish no machine-readable status at all, so an absence of alerts is an absence of information.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Danggan Balun (Five Rivers) People — this point falls inside the registered party boundary. B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

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 no estate designation resolved

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
The Summit
Lot on plan
43RP152179
Coordinates
-28.16778, 153.18861 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
peak

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.