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Lamington is a national park in Queensland, Australia, lying on the Lamington Plateau. It is a part of the World Heritage site, Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves on the Queensland/New South Wales border. From Southport on the Gold Coast the park is 85 km to the southwest and Brisbane is 120 km north.

For at least 6000 years, Aboriginal people lived in and visited these mountains.[2] The vanished Wangerriburras and Nerangballum tribes claimed home to the plateau territory.[1] Roughly 900 years ago the indigenous population began to decline.

Captain Patrick Logan and Allan Cunningham were the first European explorers in the area. The timber cutters soon followed, including the Lahey family who owned one of Queensland's largest timber mills at the time.[3]

Robert Martin Collins campaigned heavily for the protection of the area from logging from the 1890s.[3] Later it was another local, Romeo Lahey who recognised the value of preserving the forests. He campaigned to make it one of the first protected areas in Queensland.[4] The OReilly family established a guesthouse near the park in 1926, now named O'Reilly's Rainforest Guest House, and founding members of the National Parks Association of Queensland built Binna Burra Lodge next to the park in the 1930s (Note: Accommodation/External Links).

The park was named after Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1902.[1]

Bernard OReilly became a hero when he rescued the survivors from a crashed Stinson plane from the remote Lamington wilderness. In typical Aussie Bushman Fashion he embarked on his rescue mission taking only onions to eat. Only a small portion of the original wreck remains today, 10 km south from the Oreilly's guesthouse


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