Noosa Official spatial — evidence class · Noosa · QLD

Paradise Caves

Lawful route land the public may cross — no track, you navigate it

Gazetted name -26.39544, 153.11695 Noosa National Park · National Park cave

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

Public land — inside Noosa National Park. 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 cave — an opening in rock large enough for a person to enter. The register names the cave, not its extent or its condition inside, so where a cave ends and whether it is safe or open to enter are not things this site can read off the record.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Paradise Caves. 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 Noosa 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 and mudstone, mapped as Tiaro Coal Measures (Jdt) , early jurassic - middle jurassic in age. The survey describes it as: Lithofeldspathic labile and sublabile to quartzose sandstone, siltstone, shale, coal, ferruginous oolite marker Official spatial — evidence class

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

100% — Vegetation complex of rocky headlands on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.19x2 , described as 12.12.19 · 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	"Paradise Caves" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	147NPW889	Official spatial — evidence class
Council area	This place sits inside Noosa, tested against the boundary that council area publishes.	Official spatial — evidence class
Estate	Noosa National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 2,883 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 20 Jul 2007; first gazetted 1 Feb 1930; 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 cave in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it.	Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Paradise Caves and the starts of the 8 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 Measured in plan and in section

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

Coastal Walk passes 142 m from the recorded point. There is 35 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 8 published of 97 computed

97 ways in were computed and 8 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.