Carnarvon Gorge is located in the Southern Brigalow Belt bioregion in Central Queensland (Australia), 593 km northwest of Brisbane. Primarily created by water erosion, Carnarvon Gorge is around 30 kilometres long, located in Carnarvon National Park, and six hundred metres deep at the mouth. It is the most visited feature within Carnarvon National Park due to the diversity of experiences it contains and the ease with which it can be accessed. The closest towns are Injune and Rolleston.
Carnarvon Gorge, looking upstream from Crossing 5
Stencil art at the Art Gallery, an excellent example of Aboriginal rock art.
Entrance to the Amphitheatre
Hill in Carnarvon National Park
Central Queensland is an imprecisely-defined geographical division of Queensland that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn. Its major regional centre is Rockhampton. The region extends from the Capricorn Coast west to the Central Highlands at Emerald, north to the Mackay Regional Council southern boundary, and south to Gladstone. The region is also known as Capricornia. It is one of Australia's main coal exporting regions.
Gold processing plant at Mount Morgan, 1903
The Big Sapphire Ring, Sapphire, 2012
Carnarvon Gorge from Boolimba Bluff, 2010
Mount Castletower and Lake Awoonga
