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A car pulls up at Heale's Lookout, about 2,000 feet up the Gillies Highway, with the ranges and valley spread out below. The lookout sits on the climb from Gordonvale to the Atherton Tableland, a road of 263 bends that rises about 800 metres in roughly 19 kilometres. Location: Heale's Lookout, Gillies Highway.

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-17.2131, 145.6989

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1935

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View from Heale's Lookout, Gillies Highway, c. 1935

1935

See a 1935 view from Heale's Lookout on the Gillies Highway, documenting the steep climb and expansive valley landscape near the Atherton Tableland.

A car pulls up at Heale's Lookout, about 2,000 feet up the Gillies Highway, with the ranges and valley spread out below. The lookout sits on the climb from Gordonvale to the Atherton Tableland, a road of 263 bends that rises about 800 metres in roughly 19 kilometres. Location: Heale's Lookout, Gillies Highway.

A vintage car stopped at Heale's Lookout on the Gillies Highway, overlooking ranges and a valley.https://echidnamaps.com/pin/view-from-heales-lookout-gillies-highway-c-1935-1935/6ae852d232f44cc2c4ecc992