Tamborine Mountain
(The Area)
When you’re on Tamborine Mountain it feels like you are on top of the world. This volcanic peak sits on a level plateau about 550-metres above sea level and enjoys 360 degree views.To the east, you’ll see the distant Surfers Paradise highrise skyline, the Pacific Ocean, and the dense mass of the Gold Coast, a city that seems a world away, but is only a 20-minute drive. To the west is that incredible mountain range – the Scenic Rim.
Narrow country roads meander across the mountain, delivering visitors to villages and boutique wineries, cosy B&Bs, historic pubs, eclectic gift shops, beautiful art galleries and the mountain’s incredible natural attractions.While you’re on the mountain buy some locally-grown organic veggies, a bunch of native flowers, coffee and cake or some local art.
Mount Tamborine
(The Town)
Mount Tamborine is a town within the locality of Tamborine Mountain in South East Queensland, Australia.
Mount Tamborine Post Office opened by March 1924 (a receiving office had been open from 1881, originally known as Tambourine Mountain), was renamed Mount Tamborine in 1926 and closed in 1977. The name "Tamborine" is taken from the Yugembah language for "wild lime", after the finger lime trees in the area. Tamborine was sometimes spelt as "tchambreem", "jambreen" and "goombireen".
Formerly a suburb in its own right, in 1997, Mount Tamborine was merged with other former suburbs North Tamborine and Eagle Heights to create the larger locality of Tamborine Mountain. All three suburbs now have the postcode 4272 and postal address of Tamborine Mountain.
Tamborine Mountain National Park
(Features)
The Witches Falls section of the park was declared in 1908, making it Queensland's first national park. Over the years additional reserves have been declared and today the park is made up of 14 sections of land on the Tamborine plateau and surrounding foothills.
The park protects remnants of Tamborine Mountain's plant communities and includes areas of rainforest with distinctive piccabeen palm groves, wet eucalypt forest dominated by tall flooded gums, open forest with bracken fern understorey and woodland. These plant communities provide essential wildlife habitat in a landscape almost entirely surrounded by urban and rural development.
Tamborine Mountain escarpment hosts 85 percent of all animal species and 65 percent of all plant species found in the City of Gold Coast area. Some common animals seen in the national park include Australian brush-turkeys, scrubwrens, pademelons and one of the world’s largest skinks, the land mullet. Catch a glimpse of the near threatened Albert’s lyrebird or hear it mimicking calls of other birds, particularly during the winter months. The Richmond birdwing butterfly and one of the rainforest’s most colourful birds, the noisy pitta, migrate seasonally to the park from nearby higher altitude rainforests.
Basalt columns, cliffs, rocky outcrops and waterfalls are a lasting legacy of volcanic eruptions 23 million years ago. Tamborine is the most northerly remnant of the flows from a volcano centred on Mount Warning (Wollumbin).
