Somerset Official spatial — evidence class · Somerset · QLD
Mount Byron
No way in found nothing was proposed as a way in, within the area searched
Access verdict · Unconfirmed · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record
Nothing was tested — no starting point was found to test from.
No lawful starting point exists within 2.0 km of this place: no road the public may drive running down a corridor they may stand on, and no trailhead the managing authority publishes. Nothing was refused here, because there was nothing to refuse. The place is published so the gap in the record is visible rather than quietly dropped.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
What this place is A definition, then the record
A mountain — high ground rising clearly above what surrounds it, named by the register at a single coordinate somewhere on its high ground. Where the top of a mountain is, exactly, is not something a single coordinate settles, and whether the last of the climb can be walked is not something any register records.
No watercourse the register names runs within range of Mount Byron. 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 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 felsic volcanic rock, mapped as
Mount Byron Volcanics (Rib) , late triassic in age. The survey
describes it as: Rhyolitic volcaniclastics, rhyolite, trachyte
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 +/- Lophostemon confertus, Syncarpia glomulifera, Eucalyptus acmenoides woodland to open forest usually on rocky near coastal areas on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.14 · Of concern Official spatial — evidence class
On the record — what the registers actually say Sources, licences and dataset versions
| Claim | What the record says | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Name | "Mount Byron" is a gazetted register entry. | Gazetted — evidence class |
| Tenure | Resolved to Other Crown land, recorded as "Reserve". | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Parcel | 247SL12785 | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Council area | This place sits inside Somerset, 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 | 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 mountain in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. | Official spatial — evidence class |
Where it is
Map
Context map for Mount Byron: parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around the point. No approach was published, so no start is marked.
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
Mount Byron Break passes 19 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 no starting point within 2.0 km
There was nothing to compute
Not one lawful starting point was found within 2.0 km, so no approach was solved and none was refused. The records place this feature beyond every road and trailhead they describe. Publishing that emptiness is the point: it is where the record stops, and it is not a licence to head in on a bearing.
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: Jinibara 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
- Mount Byron
- Lot on plan
- 247SL12785
- Coordinates
- -27.11528, 152.67306 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- mountain
What this place was read from
- Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party boundaries (boundaries only) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
- Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-27
- Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-16
- QPWS access (walking tracks, roads, facilities) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
- Vegetation management regional ecosystem description database (VM REDD) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland remnant regional ecosystems (biodiversity status) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland detailed surface geology (1:100 000) — © State of Queensland (Geological Survey of Queensland) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22