Public Trails Computed from official land records

Scenic Rim Official spatial — evidence class · Scenic Rim · QLD

Kweebani Cave

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

Gazetted name -28.20140, 153.18530 Lamington National Park · National Park cave

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

Public land — inside Lamington 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 Kweebani Cave. 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 Lamington National Park, designated National Park. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls inside Gondwana Rainforests of Australia , a property inscribed on the World Heritage List. That is where the ground is, and it is not a statement about who may walk there — access is the tenure question above. Official spatial — evidence class

The rock at the surface is basalt, mapped as Hobwee Basalt (Tlh) , oligocene - miocene in age. The survey describes it as: Olivine basalt Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • 100% — Complex notophyll vine forest on Cainozoic igneous rocks, usually at altitude less than 600m 12.8.3 · 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 "Kweebani Cave" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 496AP22466 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Scenic Rim, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate Lamington National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 21,388 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 2 Dec 2022; first gazetted 31 Jul 1915; 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 — covers Scenic Rim

Map of Kweebani Cave and the starts of the 4 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

Panning stops just outside Scenic Rim, because the map archive is published one council area at a time. Every other council area Public Trails covers has a map of its own.

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 reaches this place Official spatial — evidence class

BB - Caves circuit passes 19 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.

Approaches — one page each 4 published of 31 computed

31 ways in were computed and 4 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.

Kweebani Cave from Cave Circuit

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class kweebani-cave--from-cave-circuit
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
809.3 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.

Kweebani Cave from Egg Rock Firebreak

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class kweebani-cave--from-egg-rock-firebreak
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1537.3 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.

Kweebani Cave from vehicle barrier track off Binna Burra Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class kweebani-cave--from-vehicle-barrier-track-off-binna-burra-road-3
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
342.5 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.

Kweebani Cave from walking track off Binna Burra Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class kweebani-cave--from-walking-track-off-binna-burra-road-6
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1056.8 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

park_alert · Lamington National Park

Planned burns Lamington National Park: Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) will be conducting planned burns (weather permitting) from 5 August 2026, as part of the fire management program for Lamington National Park.

Published by the managing authority. Follow the link for the current wording; this page carries only what the snapshot held.

park_alert · Lamington National Park

Severe Weather Damage - Lamington National Park (update 14 May): As a result of damage from Tropical Cyclone Alfred, some areas in Lamington National Park are closed until declared safe.

Published by the managing authority. Follow the link for the current wording; this page carries only what the snapshot held.

park_alert · Lamington National Park

Unplanned works - Woonoongoora Walkers' Camp (update 9 Jul): The Woonoongoora Walkers’ Camp is closed to new bookings from May to September 2026, due to works in the area. As a result, a temporary closure is in place from May to 30 September 2026, inclusive, weather permitting. Visitors can bypass the camping area and still complete the Gold Coast Hinterland Great Walk.

Published by the managing authority. Follow the link for the current wording; this page carries only what the snapshot held.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Danggan Balun (Five Rivers) People — 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
Kweebani Cave, Lamington National Park
Lot on plan
496AP22466
Coordinates
-28.20140, 153.18530 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
cave

What this place was read from