Mt Buggery, Yabba Range, Queensland.
Mt Buggery is the highest summit (558m) in the Yabba Range, which is the divide between the Yabba Valley (foreground) and the Kingaham Valley (left background). Some of this area is included in national park, but much more warrants inclusion in protected areas.
In 2024, under Labor Government administration there was a proposal for the creation a great glider habitat protection over 54,000 hectares of greater glider habitat in South East Queensland, to be the Greater Glider Forest Park.
However, that initiative is now off the books, since the Liberal National Government was elected.
However, there remains a commitment to environment protection and even to environment rehabilitation in this area, especially as the Borumba Pumped Hydro project is proposed for this catchment, its footprint being immediately adjacent to this area. Through required/legislated offsets, there is an excellent opportunity to protect and to uplift the environmental quality of the ecosystems and the unique biodiversity of this plateau and its valleys.
Mt BUGGERY? How did it get this name?
Legend has it that during the 1800s, a clergyman visited Imbil Station staying overnight, and next morning over breakfast asked for directions to the next sheep/cattle station, Yabba Station. The lady of the house replied, "Just follow that track and when you get up to buggery you will know you're there". So evidently he followed the track that follows Yabba Creek for about 30kms then before the gorge closes in, his ascent was up a long spur of this mountain - an unrelenting ascent - and once on the range he was soon at Yabba Station! And so the ascent up to buggery has ever since been Mt Buggery - the highest summit on the Yabba Range.
Mt Buggery, Yabba Range, Queensland.
Mt Buggery is the highest summit (558m) in the Yabba Range, which is the divide between the Yabba Valley (foreground) and the Kingaham Valley (left background). Some of this area is included in national park, but much more warrants inclusion in protected areas.
In 2024, under Labor Government administration there was a proposal for the creation a great glider habitat protection over 54,000 hectares of greater glider habitat in South East Queensland, to be the Greater Glider Forest Park.
However, that initiative is now off the books, since the Liberal National Government was elected.
However, there remains a commitment to environment protection and even to environment rehabilitation in this area, especially as the Borumba Pumped Hydro project is proposed for this catchment, its footprint being immediately adjacent to this area. Through required/legislated offsets, there is an excellent opportunity to protect and to uplift the environmental quality of the ecosystems and the unique biodiversity of this plateau and its valleys.
Mt BUGGERY? How did it get this name?
Legend has it that during the 1800s, a clergyman visited Imbil Station staying overnight, and next morning over breakfast asked for directions to the next sheep/cattle station, Yabba Station. The lady of the house replied, "Just follow that track and when you get up to buggery you will know you're there". So evidently he followed the track that follows Yabba Creek for about 30kms then before the gorge closes in, his ascent was up a long spur of this mountain - an unrelenting ascent - and once on the range he was soon at Yabba Station! And so the ascent up to buggery has ever since been Mt Buggery - the highest summit on the Yabba Range.