Expedition Range

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The Expedition Range is a mountain range in the central highlands of Queensland in Australia. The Range located 47 miles from Rolleston and about 530 kilometers north- west of Brisbane.

Name

In 1844 the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt named the mountain on his first expedition Australia. One of the mountains of the Expedition Range he called Mount Nicholson ( 770 meters high), according to Dr. Charles Nicholson, who had argued that the idea of ​​an overland expedition through the north -eastern Australia to Port Essington in the Council of New South Wales.

Landscape

The surveys consist of sandstone. Across the region, the Robinson Creek paved a path and thereby created a 100 -meter-high canyon. The highlands is characterized by more gorges and sandstone cliffs. In the Expedition Range is the Expedition National Park. The Comet River flows along the western slopes of the Expedition Range and then north to Rolleston. The Dawson Highway crosses the northern part of the Expedition Range.

Flora and Fauna

The area is dominated by large eucalyptus forests. Cabbage Tree Palms ( Livistona australis) are common along the river banks and in the shallow areas there are groups of Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla ) and bushes.

The wildlife is with the other high-lying sandstone areas in the Central Highlands of Queensland comparable. Birds live at the forest edges as well Whiptail wallabies.

Others

The mountain range plays a role in the novel, Landscape of Farewell ( 2007) by Alex Miller.