Eungellla
Located 690 metres above sea level at the top of the Clarke Range escarpment on Biri and Wiri country, Eungella takes its name from a pastoral run Ernest Favenc took up in July 1876. The name is reputedly a Biri word meaning land of cloud.
After gold was found at Bee Creek in 1888, the locality became the Eungella Goldfield. Until the Eungella Range Road opened in 1909, it was accessible by Armstrong's pack horse track from near Netherdale to Broken River, Carl Flor's track through the scrub to Bee Creek or a steep and dangerous road via Nebo and Mount Britton.
After the road for wheeled vehicles from the Netherdale railhead opened Eungella to settlers and timber getters, the area became a retreat from the coast's heat and humidity for picnic parties and tourists. A syndicate of nineteen families from the Mackay region built the Eungella Chalet, which was opened in 1933 and remains a popular attraction noted for platypus sightings, rainforest walking trails and lookouts with views from the escarpment along the Pioneer Valley,
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Clarke Range
Wiri
Ernest Favenc
Bee Creek
Eungella Goldfield
Eungella Range Road
Armstrong's pack horse track
Netherdale
Broken River
Carl Flor
Nebo
Mount Britton.
Eungella Chalet
