Mt Widgee and Lost World, Lamington National Park, 1945

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

From the Balonne Beacon, Thursday 28 January 1954:

THE LOST WORLD PLATEAU

HIGH in the volcanic wonderland of the Macpherson Range which seperates New South Wales from Queensland, is a jungle garden unsurpassed in wild beauty, a mountain fastness over part of which a white man has never walked.

Lamington National Park officially embraces 48,000 acres of the razorback ridges and deep broken gorges, but the surrounding forests almost double its effective area, while its heights overlook an area twice the size of Switzerland. To the north of Brisbane, the Glasshouse Mountains,a nd the Blackall Range, 130 miles away. On the south the valleys of the Tweed, Clarence and Richmond are laid out like a map, 4,000 feet below.

Over the whole of the Macphersons lies a volcanic crust, estimated to be 3500 feet deep. It is a basaltic deposit like that which covered Pompeii in 79 A.D. but

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