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

Meridan Hill

Track to nearby a published way, with steps to follow

Gazetted name Difficulty: Unclassified -26.79000, 153.03445 Mooloolah River National Park · National Park hill

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

Public land — inside Mooloolah River 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 hill — high ground rising above what surrounds it, but not far enough that the register reached for the word mountain. The choice between the two words is the namer's and the register records no height to check it against, so nothing about the size of the climb should be read from which word appears here.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Meridan Hill. 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 Mooloolah River 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 sandstone, mapped as Landsborough Sandstone (RJl) , late triassic - early jurassic in age. The survey describes it as: Lithofeldspathic labile and quartzose sandstone, siltstone, shale, minor coal, ferruginous oolite marker Official spatial — evidence class

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

100% — Eucalyptus acmenoides, E. major, E. siderophloia +/- Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata open forest on sedimentary rocks 12.9-10.17d , described as 12.9-10.17 · 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	"Meridan Hill" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	2AP22458	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	Mooloolah River National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 1,671 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 9 Dec 2016; first gazetted 9 Apr 1960; 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 hill in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it.	Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Meridan Hill and the starts of the 16 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

Main Ridge Fire Management Trail passes 38 m from the recorded point. There is 5 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 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 16 published of 60 computed

60 ways in were computed and 16 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.