Leichhardt Range
Named after the German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, the Leichhardt Range runs parallel with the coastline about 170 kilometres west of Mackay from just south of Ravenswood, between Dalbeg and Collinsville on the seaward side and Lake Dalrymple (the Burdekin Dam) on the western side. With an average elevation of 355 metres above sea level, the low, rugged hills are largely folded Ordovician (490 to 434 million years) to Late Carboniferous (325 to 298 million years) granite and granodiorite interspersed with areas of Cambrian(545 to 490 million years) volcanic rhyolite at the southern edge.
