Ipswich Official spatial — evidence class · Ipswich · QLD

Discovery Lake

Lawful route — caveats lawful, with something that needs saying first

Gazetted name -27.67806, 152.91333 lake

Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference

Public land. No published track reaches it — the lawful ground to it is a chain of parcels.

Being at this point is lawful on the records below. Getting there is a separate question, answered route by route — and each route carries its own verdict and its own caveats.

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 lake — a body of standing water, named at one coordinate somewhere on or beside it. The register records neither the shoreline nor whether the water is there — a great many named lakes in this country are dry ground most years.

Discovery Lake sits on Opossum Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 19.1 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls outside every protected-area estate in the snapshot.

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

The rock at the surface is sandstone and mudstone, mapped as Redbank Plains Formation (Tbr) , paleocene in age. The survey describes it as: Lacustrine interbedded multi-coloured claystone, shale, labile sandstone Official spatial — evidence class

The remnant vegetation mapping records no ecosystem over this point. That covers remnant vegetation only, so it is what the register says about ground that has been cleared, or is water, sand or rock — not a statement that nothing grows here.

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	"Discovery Lake" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Freehold, recorded as "Freehold".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	8000SP284995	Official spatial — evidence class
Council area	This place sits inside Ipswich, tested against the boundary that council area publishes.	Official spatial — evidence class
Estate	This point falls outside every protected-area estate polygon in the snapshot.	—
Watercourse	Opossum Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 19.1 m away.	Official spatial — evidence class
Feature	Recorded as a lake in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it.	Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Discovery Lake and the starts of the 7 published approaches 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 No published way within range

No vetted way the managing authority publishes comes within range of this point. That is a fact about the access record, not about the ground: an unmapped pad may well exist, and this site will not invent one on the strength of that.

Approaches — one page each 7 published of 297 computed

297 ways in were computed and 7 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.