North Queensland Is Hiding Something Most Australians Don't Know Exists

0:00 16 remarkable geographic facts about North Queensland that reveal a landscape far more complex than commonly believed. 0:46 North Queensland 1:30 Cape Tribulation 2:04 The Daintree 3:08 Mount Bartle Frere 4:14 Walloman Falls 5:08 Atherton Tablelands 6:22 Undara 7:43 Chilago 8:36 Richmond 9:50 Great Artesian Basin 10:53 Riversley Fossil Fields 11:57 Great Barrier Reef 13:06 Hinchin Brook Island 14:08 Melville Range 15:21 Gulf of Carpentaria 16:20 Cape York Peninsula North Queensland is far stranger and more varied than the familiar image of cane fields, cattle country and the Great Barrier Reef suggests. I explore 16 remarkable geographic facts, from the ancient Daintree rainforest and Australia's wettest mountains to volcanic lava tubes, inland-sea fossils and the Great Artesian Basin. I also look at the Great Barrier Reef, Hinchin Brook Island, the Melville Range and the morning glory clouds of the Gulf of Carpentaria. After nearly four decades teaching Australian geography, I keep coming back to the same lesson: the map may show where places are, but it cannot reveal everything they contain.