Scenic Rim Official spatial — evidence class · Scenic Rim · QLD
Morans Creek
Lawful route — caveats lawful, with something that needs saying first
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.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
What this place is A definition, then the record
A watercourse — the channel a creek or river runs in, named at one coordinate along a length that may run for kilometres. Whether there is water in it is not recorded, and neither is whether its bed may be walked — that is a question about the land the channel crosses, answered on this site by the tenure chain rather than by the name.
Morans Creek sits on Albert River (Left Branch). The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 1.4 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 basalt, mapped as
Albert Basalt (Tfa) , oligocene - miocene in age. The survey
describes it as: Olivine basalt
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
| Claim | What the record says | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Name | "Morans Creek" is a gazetted register entry. | Gazetted — evidence class |
| Tenure | Resolved to Watercourse bed, recorded as "Watercourse". | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Parcel | 2708808 | 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 | This point falls outside every protected-area estate polygon in the snapshot. | — |
| Watercourse | Albert River (Left Branch), whose surveyed centreline runs 1.4 m away. | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Feature | Recorded as a watercourse in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. | Official spatial — evidence class |
Where it is
Map
Map of Morans Creek and the start of the one published approach to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.
What the colours mean
- Land — the council area the region is published under
- Water beyond the council boundary
- Freehold or leasehold — no public access
- National park / protected estate — public land
- Road reserve
- Watercourse
- Track recorded by the managing authority
- Contour, every 10 m of height — nothing is implied about the ground between two of them
- Tenure unresolved — treated as no access
- Where your device says you are, shown only if you press the locate button — read as a rough fix, not a position, and never sent anywhere
- A place with a published approach — the pin is a link to it
- A place with none — every one is listed under the map with its verdict in words
- Where a published approach starts — each one has a page of its own below
- The walk — the line the legs below describe, not a surveyed path
- The parcels it crosses — the evidence the walk is lawful
- Watercourse crossing — no structure, off in high flow
Names on the map come from the same official records as the rest of the page — road and track names from the cadastre and the access layer, watercourses and estates from their own layers. A feature the record does not name is left unlabelled rather than guessed at.
Sources, licences and dataset versions for everything this map draws.
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
404 Powerline Ridge Break passes 48 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 1 published of 5 computed
5 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.
Morans Creek from Left Hand Branch Road
Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class morans-creek--from-left-hand-branch-road-2- Verdict
- Lawful, with caveats
- One way
- 2941.2 m
- Caveats
- Watercourse crossing
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: 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 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
- Morans Creek
- Lot on plan
- 2708808
- Coordinates
- -28.22864, 153.08824 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- watercourse