Springbrook NP is in south east Queensland, in parts on the border with NSW. It is in the hills west of the Gold Coast and is well worth a visit. There are waterfalls, rainforest, walking trails, and lookouts, and it is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area. It also contains some Antarctic Beech trees, and you can stand on the remnants of the Tweed volcano, which was originally over 100km in diameter. #naturephotography #landscapephography #SpringbrookNP #Queensland #australia #AntarcticBeech #Gondwana

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Cairns Post,1934 ~ "A curiosity in Queensland forest trees is apparently a relic of archaic time, when this State was emerging from the glacial period. It is a tree known as the Antarctic Beech & it is remarkable that it grows only in Queensland & Tierra del Fuego - the extremes of heat & cold ... Mawson & other Antarctic expeditions found fossils of this tree amid the blizzard-swept regions of the Antarctic continent. ..."

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