Public Trails Computed from official land records

Noosa Official spatial — evidence class · Noosa · QLD

Elanda Point

Track to nearby a published way, with steps to follow

Gazetted name Difficulty: Class 3 -26.24962, 153.00988 Great Sandy National Park · National Park point

Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

Public land — inside Great Sandy National Park. A published track reaches it.

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 point — land reaching into the water, or the tip of it — the register uses the word for headlands, spits and rocky ends alike. It names one coordinate and records nothing about what surrounds it, so whether the last of a point can be walked, and whether the sea reaches it, are not things read off this record.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Elanda Point. 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 Great Sandy 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 sandstone, mapped as Myrtle Creek Sandstone (RJdm) , late triassic - early jurassic in age. The survey describes it as: Quartzose sandstone, orthoquartzite, sublabile to labile sandstone, siltstone, shale Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • 100% — Eucalyptus racemosa subsp. racemosa woodland on sedimentary rocks 12.9-10.4 · Least 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 "Elanda Point" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 1AP23771 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Noosa, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate Great Sandy National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 224,718 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 19 Sep 2024; first gazetted 30 Nov 1968; 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 point in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Elanda Point 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 passes this place Official spatial — evidence class

Mill Point Road passes 21 m from the recorded point. The contour layer does not cover this ground, so the height between the two is unmeasured — and an unmeasured gap is never read as no gap.

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 1 published of 3 computed

3 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.

Elanda Point from Elanda Base Roads

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class elanda-point--from-elanda-base-roads
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
2686.7 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

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: Kabi Kabi First Nation Traditional Owners Native Title Claim Group — 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

This point sits on protected estate. In Queensland that ordinarily means no dogs or pets, no open fires outside provided facilities, no camping outside designated areas, no drones without authority, and nothing taken. These follow from the tenure and the legislation that governs it — they are statutory inference, not a copy of a sign.

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
Elanda Point, Great Sandy National Park
Lot on plan
1AP23771
Coordinates
-26.24962, 153.00988 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
point

What this place was read from