Somerset Official spatial — evidence class · Somerset · QLD

Handy Gully

Track to nearby a published way, with steps to follow

Gazetted name Difficulty: Unclassified -26.73333, 152.50000 Conondale National Park · National Park watercourse

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

Public land — inside Conondale 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

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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.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Handy Gully. 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 Conondale 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 pelite, mapped as Jimna Phyllite (DCj) , late devonian - early carboniferous in age. The survey describes it as: Brown to grey, polydeformed slate and phyllite with scattered metachert layers Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps 2 ecosystems over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

55% — Eucalyptus siderophloia, E. propinqua +/- E. microcorys, Lophostemon confertus, Corymbia intermedia, E. acmenoides open forest on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics 12.11.3 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class
45% — Mixed open forest including combinations of Eucalyptus propinqua, E. siderophloia, Corymbia intermedia, E. microcorys, Lophostemon confertus open forest on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.15 · 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	"Handy Gully" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	7AP23765	Official spatial — evidence class
Council area	This place sits inside Somerset, tested against the boundary that council area publishes.	Official spatial — evidence class
Estate	Conondale National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 35,835 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 9 Dec 2022; first gazetted 24 Sep 1977; 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 watercourse in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it.	Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Handy Gully 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 Measured in plan and in section

The way passes this place Official spatial — evidence class

Plank Bridge Road passes 13 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 7 published of 14 computed

14 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.