Mount Cordeaux is a mountain

Mountain

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 near Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It lies to the immediate north of Cunninghams Gap in the Main Range National Park

Main Range National Park

Main Range is a mountain range and a national park in Queensland , 85 km southwest of Brisbane. It is part of the World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia . It protects the western part of a semicircle of mountains in South East Queensland known as the Scenic Rim...

. It is known to the Aboriginal People as Niamboyoo and rises 1,135 m.

A series of graded trails leads to a lookout just below the summit. From the summit other Scenic Rim

Scenic Rim

The Scenic Rim is a group of forested mountain ranges of the Great Dividing Range straddling the border between south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.-Description:...

 peaks can be seen, as can the Fassifern Valley

Fassifern Valley

Fassifern Valley is a valley of the Scenic Rim in South East Queensland. Towns found in the valley include Harrisville, Kalbar, Roadvale, Warril View and Aratula...

 below and the Mistake Range to the north east. Walkers should be aware that there are hazardous, sheer cliffs along the tracks.

The first European to discover and name the mountain was Allan Cunningham

Allan Cunningham (botanist)

Allan Cunningham was an English botanist and explorer, primarily known for his travels in New South Wales to collect plants.- Early life :...

 in 1828. It was named after William Cordeaux who was the assistant to Sir Thomas Mitchell, the Surveyor-General.

Vegetation on the lower parts in mostly rainforest. In higher areas montane heath

Heath (habitat)

A heath or heathland is a dwarf-shrub habitat found on mainly low quality acidic soils, characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, often dominated by plants of the Ericaceae. There are some clear differences between heath and moorland...

 and grasstrees

Xanthorrhoea

Xanthorrhoea is a genus of flowering plants native to Australia and a member of family Xanthorrhoeaceae, being the only member of subfamily Xanthorrhoeoideae. The Xanthorrhoeaceae are monocots, part of order Asparagales. There are 28 species and five subspecies of Xanthorrhoea.-Description:All are...

 are found. The giant rock lily

Doryanthes palmeri

Doryanthes palmeri is a plant of the genus Doryanthes. It grows in a rosette and the leaves can reach the length of about three meters . The flowers arise in springtime on a stalk which may reach 5 metres height....

 grows well on the slopes of Mount Cordeaux.

See also

• List of mountains in Australia
• Mount Mitchell
  Mount Mitchell (Queensland)
  Mount Mitchell lies about 100 km west of Brisbane, Australia and immediately south of Cunninghams Gap. The peak to the south of the gap was named by Allan Cunningham in 1828 and today is part of the Main Range National Park. Cunningham named the mountain after the Surveyor-General, Thomas...