Surveying with helicopter on Mount Bellenden Ker
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Atherton Tableland, Tinaroo Falls dam in flood
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Atherton Shire and Tableland
Atherton Shire, an area of 623 sq km, and generally 40 km south-west of Cairns, was amalgamated with Eacham, Herberton and Mareeba Shires in 2008 to form Tablelands Regional Council. It is bounded to the north-east by the Tinaroo Range and the south-west by the Nelson Range. Mount Bartle Frere and the coastal Bellenden Ker Range put the shire and the Tableland in a minor rain shadow. To the west are extensive folding ranges which continue the Great Dividing Range.
Further Reading:
Tableland visitors guide to the Cairns hinterland, Atherton, The Tablelander, annual, nd
Anne Statham, Cows in the vine scrub: a history of dairying on the Atherton Tableland, Malanda, Malanda Dairyfoods, 1998
Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, Tablelands of north Queensland, Atherton and Evelyn Tablelands and Oswalds's Track (Returned Soldiers' Settlement), Brisbane, The Bureau, 1918
Tall timber and golden grain, Atherton 1885-1985, Atherton, Atherton Centenary Committee, 1985
Edwina Toohey, From bullock team to puffing billy: the Atherton Tableland and its hinterland: Aborigines and settlers 1860s to 1994, Rockhampton, Central Queensland University Press, 2001
Atherton, Tinaroo, Tolga and Wet Tropics entries
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