Editing Main Range National Park (section)

==History==
[[Spicers Gap]] is believed to be a traditional pathway for [[Indigenous Australians]] travelling between the inland and the coast.
[[File:Mount Mitchell1.jpg|thumb|right|Near [[Cunninghams Gap]], [[Mount Mitchell (Queensland)|Mount Mitchell]] rises to an elevation of 1168 m.]]
In 1828, [[Allan Cunningham (botanist)|Allan Cunningham]] 'officially' discovered the route through the mountains now called [[Cunninghams Gap]]; however, it can be easily seen from Brisbane. [[Stockman (Australia)|Stockman]] [[Henry Alphen]] discovered Spicers Gap in 1847. The Spicers Gap Road, used to carry supplies to and from the [[Darling Downs]], is the best remaining example of sophisticated 19th-century engineering in Queensland.

In 1840, [[George Elphinstone Dalrymple]] settled in the Goomburra Valley.  [[Dalrymple Creek, Queensland|Dalrymple Creek]] was named after this early settler. By 1847, a new road through Spicers Gap was opening areas for settlers. In 1909, the area surrounding Cunninghams Gap was declared a national park.<ref name="heritage" /> In 1994, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee extended the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia to include Goomburra Forest Reserve within Main Range National Park. In 2007, the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia was added to the [[Australian National Heritage List]].<ref name=ARCS>{{Citation | author1=Rainforest Conservation Society Inc | author2=Keto, Aila | author-link2=Aila Keto | author3=Scott, Keith | title=The central eastern rainforests of Australia : World Heritage nomination | publication-date=1992 | publisher=Rainforest Conservation Society | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/24045583 | access-date=14 October 2021}}</ref>