What this site is built from

NSW bed passage — none claimed

Crown Land Management Act 2016 (NSW) s 13.3 removes a riparian owner's entitlement to the bed only where the bed was reserved from sale or lease before s 172 of the Crown Lands Act 1989 commenced — a title question no spatial layer answers, so New South Wales carries no region-wide bed passage. No route published here walks the bed of a watercourse.

QLD bed passage (statutory inference)

Land Act 1994 (Qld) s 13A — land on the watercourse side of a non-tidal boundary is the property of the State, despite the alienation of the land. State ownership of a bed is not a public right of way: this is a statutory inference made by this site, not a finding of any court or authority.

What counts as arriving

for a beach, a way is the way to it where it passes within 40 m and no more than 10 m of height separates the two ; for a cape, a way is the way to it where it passes within 40 m and no more than 15 m of height separates the two ; for a cave, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates the two ; for a ford, a way is the way to it where it passes within 20 m and no more than 5 m of height separates the two ; for a hill, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 5 m of height separates the two ; for a lake, a way is the way to it where it passes within 40 m and no more than 10 m of height separates the two ; for a lookout, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates the two ; for a mountain, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 5 m of height separates the two ; for a pass, a way is the way to it where it passes within 30 m and no more than 8 m of height separates the two ; for a peak, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 2 m of height separates the two ; for a point, a way is the way to it where it passes within 40 m and no more than 15 m of height separates the two ; for a range, a way is the way to it where it passes within 50 m and no more than 25 m of height separates the two ; for a ridge, a way is the way to it where it passes within 50 m and no more than 20 m of height separates the two ; for a watercourse, a way is the way to it where it passes within 30 m and no more than 8 m of height separates the two ; for a waterfall, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates the two ; for a waterhole, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates the two . Both gaps are published on every route, so the rule can be checked against the answer.

Which places are looked for

These kinds are enumerated from the names register and routed to whether or not a way reaches them: cave, hill, lookout, mountain, peak, waterfall, waterhole. Every one of them is published, refusals included.

These are never enumerated, and are published only where an official way turns out to reach them: beach, cape, ford, lake, pass, point, range, ridge, watercourse. One of these that no way reaches is not a gap in this site — it is a place no authority has published a way to.

When a leg is named for a way

A leg of a chain is named for a way where a mapped way runs within 25 m of the leg for at least 70% of its length. That tolerance absorbs the difference between a straight leg and a bending survey; it is not a claim about how accurately any position is known, and naming a way changes no verdict.

Community names are quarantined

Community names come from OpenStreetMap under ODbL and are labelled as community records. They are never blended into the graded chain that produces a verdict, and never enter the map tiles.