Sunshine Coast Official spatial — evidence class · Sunshine Coast · QLD

Gheerulla Falls

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

Gazetted name -26.60806, 152.82944 Mapleton National Park · National Park waterfall

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

Public land — inside Mapleton 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 waterfall — a step in a watercourse steep enough that the water falls clear of the bed rather than running down it. The step is usually a band of harder rock the creek has been unable to cut through as fast as the softer rock below, so the drop moves slowly upstream over time and leaves a gorge behind it.

Gheerulla Falls sits on Gheerulla Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 2.7 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls inside Mapleton 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 felsic volcanic rock, mapped as Carol Creek Rhyolite (Rmc) , late triassic in age. The survey describes it as: Rhyolitic tuff Official spatial — evidence class

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

100% — Simple notophyll vine forest usually with abundant Archontophoenix cunninghamiana (gully vine forest) on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.1 · Of concern Official spatial — evidence class

No register records how far the water falls. What the contours record is this: the terrain rule fired here because the bed loses 15.0 m within 28.5 m along the watercourse — the test the rule applies, not the height of the fall. Its steepest single stretch drops 5.0 m over 1.9 m of ground — 2.7 m down for every metre along the bed. That is a floor and not a total: the contour interval is the smallest drop this layer can show, so the face is at least this steep and may be far more. Statutory inference — 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	"Gheerulla Falls" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	1239NPW1105	Official spatial — evidence class
Council area	This place sits inside Sunshine Coast, tested against the boundary that council area publishes.	Official spatial — evidence class
Estate	Mapleton National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 10,064 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 28 Mar 2014; first gazetted 15 Feb 1973; no encumbrance recorded.	Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse	Gheerulla Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 2.7 m away.	Official spatial — evidence class
Feature	Found by the terrain rule falls-rule/1, which fired because the bed loses 15.0 m within 28.5 m — the threshold it tests, not the height of the fall. Steepest stretch measured: 5.0 m over 1.9 m. A rule fired — nobody surveyed it.	Statutory inference — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Gheerulla Falls and the starts of the 11 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 stops short of this place Official spatial — evidence class

Gheerulla Falls Break passes 167 m from the recorded point. There is 45 m of climb or drop between the two, read at a 5.0 m contour interval. The contours give the height between them and never which way round it is, so this is a separation and not a descent to plan.

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 11 published of 36 computed

36 ways in were computed and 11 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.