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

Tragedy Falls

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

Community name -26.71839, 152.63921 Conondale National Park · National Park waterfall

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

Public land — inside Conondale 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.

Tragedy Falls sits on Tragedy Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 21.7 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls inside 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 sedimentary and mafic volcanic rock, mapped as Booloumba beds (Cb) , early carboniferous? in age. The survey describes it as: Quartzose meta-arenite, argillite; haematitic slate, pillow basalt, volcaniclastic breccia 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 often with abundant Archontophoenix cunninghamiana (gully vine forest) on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics 12.11.1 · Least 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 26.8 m along the watercourse — the test the rule applies, not the height of the fall. Its steepest single stretch drops 5.0 m over 3.9 m of ground — 1.3 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	"Tragedy Falls" is a community record only — absent from the gazetteer and from the state feature layer.	Community — 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 Sunshine Coast, 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	Tragedy Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 21.7 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 26.8 m — the threshold it tests, not the height of the fall. Steepest stretch measured: 5.0 m over 3.9 m. A rule fired — nobody surveyed it.	Statutory inference — evidence class

Officially this place exists only as an unnamed feature on public land. The name is a community record; everything else on this page is computed from gazetted, official spatial or statutory-inference sources, and the two are never mixed.

Where it is

Map

Map of Tragedy Falls and the starts of the 5 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 No published way within range

No vetted way the managing authority publishes comes within range of this point. That is a fact about the access record, not about the ground: an unmapped pad may well exist, and this site will not invent one on the strength of that.

Approaches — one page each 5 published of 10 computed

10 ways in were computed and 5 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.