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

Wappa Falls

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

Gazetted name -26.57083, 152.92528 waterfall

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

Public land. 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.

Wappa Falls sits on South Maroochy River. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 17.5 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

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 Wappa Rhyolite (Rmw) , late triassic in age. The survey describes it as: Rhyolite Official spatial — evidence class

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

100% — Eucalyptus pilularis tall open forest on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks especially granite 12.12.2 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class

No register consulted records how far the water falls, and nothing here estimates it. This place is published because a register says it is here, not because a rule found it.

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	"Wappa Falls" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Watercourse bed, recorded as "Watercourse".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	2162894	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	This point falls outside every protected-area estate polygon in the snapshot.	—
Watercourse	South Maroochy River, whose surveyed centreline runs 17.5 m away.	Official spatial — evidence class
Feature	Recorded as a waterfall in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it.	Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Wappa Falls and the starts of the 12 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

Pump Station Road passes 33 m from the recorded point. The gap crosses no contour, which is as level as this layer can evidence — not a survey saying the ground is flat.

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 12 published of 55 computed

55 ways in were computed and 12 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.