Wet Tropics
The wet tropics region of Queensland extends from just north of Cooktown to Bambaroo, south of Ingham, a distance of nearly 400 km. Beyond Ingham there is a break until the wet-tropics Paluma Range, which reaches south to Townsville's latitude. The region is relatively narrow, usually not extending more than 40 km inland. At a point north of Cairns it reaches only 15 km inland; its widest extent (60km) is south of the Atherton Tableland.
Further Reading:
Rod Ritchie, North Queensland wet tropics: a guide for travellers, Millers Point, NSW, Rainforest Publishing, 1995
Geoff McDonald and Marcus Lane, eds, Securing the wet tropics?, Leichhardt, NSW, Federation Press, 2000
S.E. Stephens, ‘Horticultural districts of Queensland: the wet tropics’, Queensland Agricultural Journal, October 1952, p 207
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