| Queen Mary Falls | |
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 Queen Mary Falls, pictured in 2006. | |
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| Location | Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 28°20′23″S152°22′24″E / 28.3397°S 152.37333°E [1] [2] |
| Type | Plunge |
| Total height | 40 metres (130 ft) [3] |
| Number of drops | 1 |
| Longest drop | 40 metres (130 ft) [3] |
| Watercourse | Spring Creek |
The Queen Mary Falls is a plunge waterfall on Spring Creek, in the locality of The Falls in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. [4]
The falls are situated in the Main Range National Park and descend 40 metres (130 ft) [3] from the McPherson Range near the Queensland/New South Wales border. They are located 50 kilometres (31 mi) south-east of Warwick and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of the town of Killarney.
The falls formed when water erosion by streams created gorges through layers of basalt and resistant trachyte. [5] The falls are currently retreating as large blocks at the bottom of the falls were not evident in photos taken in the 19th century. [6] Facilities at the falls include toilets, tables and fireplaces.
Four other waterfalls are located in the area surrounding Killarney, including the Teviot Falls, Daggs Falls, Browns Falls and Upper Browns Falls.
The Main Range is a mountain range and national park in Queensland, Australia, located predominantly in Tregony, Southern Downs Region, 85 kilometres (53 mi) southwest of Brisbane. It is part of the World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia. It protects the western part of a semicircle of mountains in South East Queensland known as the Scenic Rim. This includes the largest area of rainforest in South East Queensland. The park is part of the Scenic Rim Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance in the conservation of several species of threatened birds.
The McPherson Range is an extensive mountain range, a spur of the Great Dividing Range, heading in an easterly direction from near Wallangarra to the Pacific Ocean coastline. It forms part of the Scenic Rim on the border between the states of New South Wales and Queensland. Further west of the McPherson Range is the Main Range. Towards the coast the range continues into the Border Ranges and other mountainous terrain formed by the Tweed Volcano.
The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia. The Downs are to the west of South East Queensland and are one of the major regions of Queensland. The name was generally applied to an area approximating to that of the Condamine River catchment upstream of Condamine township but is now applied to a wider region comprising the Southern Downs, Western Downs, Toowoomba and Goondiwindi local authority areas. The name Darling Downs was given in 1827 by Allan Cunningham, the first European explorer to reach the area and recognises the then Governor of New South Wales, Ralph Darling.
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