Hervey Range
Mountain range in Queensland, Australia
title: "Hervey Range" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mountain-ranges-of-queensland", "north-queensland"] description: "Mountain range in Queensland, Australia" topic_path: "general/mountain-ranges-of-queensland" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervey_Range" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Mountain range in Queensland, Australia ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox mountain"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Hervey Range |
| country | Australia |
| state | Queensland |
| region | North Queensland |
| range | Great Dividing |
| part_type | Feature |
| part | Thorntons Gap |
| highest | Mount Cataract |
| elevation_m | 709 |
| range_coordinates | |
| coordinates | |
| length_km | |
| width_km | |
| :: |
::callout[type=note] the mountain range in Queensland, Australia ::
| name = Hervey Range | native_name = | other_name = | etymology = | photo = | photo_caption = | photo_size = | country = Australia | state = Queensland | state1 = | state2 = | state3 = | region = North Queensland | district = | range = Great Dividing | border = | city = | part_type = Feature | part =Thorntons Gap | highest = Mount Cataract | elevation_m = 709 | range_coordinates = | coordinates = | length_km = | length_orientation = | width_km = | width_orientation = | area_km2 = | geology = | orogeny = | period = | biome = | map = | map_caption = The Hervey Range is a large mountain range about 39 km west of Townsville, in Queensland, Australia. It is one of the highest peaks in the Townsville region and is also the location of the Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms. The highest point of the range is Mount Cataract, which is 709 m high.
Thorntons Gap is a historic feature on the range, where a walking track that provided access to goldfields crossed the range.
Apart from the tea house, there are few houses, no estates and no shops around the Hervey Range because it is mostly rural. There are other attractions on the range, such as the former Greenvale Rail Trail, which runs up the range and into a tunnel in the mountain.
The Greenvale railway line was opened from Cobarra, north of Townsville, to the nickel mine at Greenvale in 1974, and closed in 1993 with the closure of the mine. The line passed under the Hervey Range through a series of tunnels. The tracks were removed and re-used on coal rail lines in Central Queensland.
References
References
- Tony Raggatt. (15 December 2007). "Line opening derailed". The North Queensland Newspaper Company.
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::