{{Short description|Mountain range in Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox mountain range <!-- *** Heading *** --> | name = Gregory | native_name = | other_name = <!-- *** Names **** --> | etymology = {{nowrap|In honour of Sir Augustus Gregory}} <!-- *** Image *** --> | image = | image_caption = | image_size = 280 <!-- *** Country *** --> | country = Australia | subdivision1_type = State | subdivision1 = Queensland | subdivision2_type = Region | subdivision2 = Far North Queensland <!-- Highest point --> | highest = ''unnamed peak''<!-- name --> | highest_location = in the Blackbraes National Park | elevation_m = 1043 | elevation_system = {{AHD}}<!-- The reference system that defines the elevation --> | elevation_ref = <ref name=rgsq2/> <!-- Coordinates of the highest point --> | coordinates = <!-- Range --> | length_km = 400 | width_km = | area_km2 = | length_orientation = east{{endash}}west | width_orientation = | length_ref = | width_ref = | area_ref = | parent = Great Dividing Range <!-- *** Family *** --> | subdivision4_type = Rivers | subdivision4 = {{enum|Norman|Carron|Clara|Yappar}} <!-- *** Locations *** --> | range_coordinates = {{coord|19|00|S|143|12|E|type:mountain_region:AU-QLD|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | geology = {{bulleted list|Sandstone|Basalt and granite}} | orogeny = | age = {{bulleted list|Jurassic|Mesoproterozoic}} | biome = <!-- Locator map; takes coordinates from "highest point" (and perhaps "range"; need to experiment and then correct this comment) --> | map = Queensland | map_alt = | map_caption = Location of the Gregory Range in Queensland | map_relief = 1 }} The '''Gregory Range''' is a mountain range in Far North Queensland, Australia.
==Location and features== Part of the Great Dividing Range,<ref name=QP1>{{cite web|url=http://www.queenslandplaces.com.au/queensland|title=Queensland|year=2014|accessdate=17 October 2014|publisher=Centre for the Government of Queensland}}</ref> the Gregory Range lies southeast of {{QLDcity|Croydon}} and southwest of {{QLDcity|Georgetown}}.<ref name=bonzle1>{{cite web|url=http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=5698&cmd=sp|title=Map of Gregory Range (1), QLD|accessdate=8 December 2015|work=Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia}}</ref><ref name=bonzle2>{{cite web|url=http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=10492&cmd=sp|title=Map of Gregory Range (2), QLD|accessdate=8 December 2015|work=Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia}}</ref><ref name=bonzle3>{{cite web|url=http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=5800&cmd=sp|title=Map of Gregory Range (3), QLD|accessdate=8 December 2015|work=Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia}}</ref>
The range is located in an area of ephemeral watercourses and stony sandstone ridges lightly vegetated with ''Eucalyptus miniata'', acacia and spinifex on the ridge tops. Further down the ridges areas of paperbark are found.<ref name=rgsq>{{cite web|url=http://www.rgsq.org.au/19-143c|title=19°S 143°E Gregory Range – Queensland by Degrees|year=2012|accessdate=12 October 2014|publisher=Royal Geographical Society of Queensland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017111252/http://www.rgsq.org.au/19-143c|archive-date=17 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> The range extends approximately {{convert|400|km|mi|-1}} in an east–west direction.<ref name=QP1/> The southern portion forms an undulating sandstone and basalt plateau. The sandstone is of the Jurassic age (180-160 million years) while the basalt and granite dates from the Mesoproterozoic age (1.6 - 1.0 billion years). This portion is covered in open forest of bloodwood, wattle, eucalypts and spear grass. The Stawall River flows south from the range and is a tributary of the Flinders River.<ref name=rgsq2/>
The Norman River and three of its tributaries the Carron, Clara and Yappar Rivers, also have their headwaters in the range. The flow from these rivers is westward into the Gulf of Carpentaria.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.queenslandplaces.com.au/gulf-country,-queensland|title=Gulf Country, Queensland|year=2011|accessdate=17 October 2014|publisher=Centre for the Government of Queensland}}</ref> The Gilbert and Robertson Rivers also have there headwaters in the range but flow northward.<ref name=rgsq/> The highest point is in the southern half of the range with an elevation of {{convert|1043|m|ft|0}} and is found within the Blackbraes National Park.<ref name=rgsq2>{{cite web|url=http://www.rgsq.org.au/20-144c|title=20°S 144°E Maiden Springs – Queensland by Degrees|year=2012|accessdate=12 October 2014|publisher=Royal Geographical Society of Queensland}}</ref>
The first European to travel through the area was the explorer Augustus Charles Gregory in 1855 or 1856<ref name=rgsq2/> as part of his expedition from Port Essington to Brisbane. The range was named by the explorer John McKinlay in 1862 while on an expedition from Adelaide in search of the lost Burke and Wills expedition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1303341h.html|title=Northmost Australia, Volume I|author=Jack, Robert Logan|date=1 June 2013|accessdate=18 October 2014|publisher=Project Gutenberg of Australia}}</ref>
==See also== {{stack|{{portal|Queensland|Mountains}}}} *List of mountains in Queensland
==References== {{Reflist}}
Category:Mountain ranges of Queensland Category:Landforms of Far North Queensland