Somerset Official spatial — evidence class · Somerset · QLD
Mount Gibbarnee
No lawful route approaches were tested; none carried a right of passage
Access verdict · Unconfirmed · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record
No lawful approach to this place could be established from the public record.
Every entry point tested ends at land the public has no established right to cross. This page publishes the refusal and the reason, and no route line of any kind.
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 Gibbarnee. 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 Elgin Vale State Forest, designated State Forest. Official spatial — evidence class
The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.
The rock at the surface is mafic volcanic rock, mapped as
Neara Volcanics/cg (Rtn/cg) , middle triassic in age. The survey
describes it as: Medium to mainly thick bedded volcaniclastic arenite, interlayed with dominantly andesitic pebble to cobble conglomerate; subordinate siltstone and mudstone interbeds
Official spatial — evidence class
The register maps 2 ecosystems over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.
- 80% — Eucalyptus crebra woodland on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.7 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class
- 20% — Eucalyptus tereticornis, Corymbia intermedia, E. crebra +/- Lophostemon suaveolens woodland on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.12 · 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 Gibbarnee" is a gazetted register entry. | Gazetted — evidence class |
| Tenure | Two or more records disagree about the tenure at this point, so nothing is asserted. | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Parcel | ACSH1538 | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Council area | This place sits inside Somerset, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Estate | Elgin Vale State Forest , designated State Forest. Declared under the Forestry Act 1959; 9,420 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 19 Sep 2024; first gazetted 1 Jan 2001; 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 mountain in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. | Official spatial — evidence class |
Where it is
Map
Map of Mount Gibbarnee 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 stops short of this place Official spatial — evidence class
Wombi Creek Road passes 431 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 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 1 published of 7 computed
7 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.
Mount Gibbarnee from Wombi Creek Road
Official spatial · Unconfirmed — evidence class mount-gibbarnee--from-wombi-creek-road-2- Verdict
- Unconfirmed
- One way
- not published
- Caveats
- none
No lawful chain was established from this entry. The route page states why, and publishes no legs.
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: Kabi Kabi First Nation Traditional Owners Native Title Claim Group — 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 State Forest · statutory inference
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 Gibbarnee, Elgin Vale State Forest
- Lot on plan
- ACSH1538
- Coordinates
- -26.56056, 152.24667 (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
- Protected areas of Queensland (estate polygons) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23
- 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