Australiana Series*Logan Rd Captain Patrick Logan* Underwood, Queensland, Australia
By Sambuccasam on 03-Jan-17. Waypoint GA9280

Remnant Bush tricky Spot. Watch for traffic..secluded area so no muggles.

Cache placed for the Summer Scavenger Series 2016. It is in a piece of Remnant bushland, an island between an major road. Please take care when crossing the roads try not to approach this during peak hour traffic. You will have to find a safe place to park perhaps further than you wish to walk but walk you will it will be the safer option. I hope you enjoy the hunt and love the hide.

End of the Road Logan Road. This was also used as part of the old Pacific Highway. Logan Road starts in Woolloongabba and ends here at Underwood/Slacks Creek/Springwood bordering suburbs. It is 18 kilometres long. This dirt track was formally an aboriginal track. Logan Road was actually originally known as 'Slack's Track,' after early settler, William Slack, used the track to move his cattle through the area. The track was remaned Logan Road after a survey in 1864. The Glenn Hotel on Logan Rd was a stop on the Cobb and Co line to the Gold Coast.

Logan Road named after :

Captain Patrick Logan Commandant of the Moreton Bay Penal Colony and Explorer who has his name on everything here in my council district of Logan....Logan City Council...Logan River....Logan Rd....Loganlea(suburb)..Logan Diggers RSL Club....Logan Bogans....hahaha jokes.

His explorations.
Patrick Logan systematically explored south-east Queensland. He discovered the southern entrance to Moreton Bay, now known as the Gold Coast Broadwater. He named the McPherson Range, Birnam Range, Teviot Brook and Wilsons Peak.

Logan was the first European explorer to visit the upper reaches of the Brisbane River and other places in the vicinity including the areas now known as Esk and the mountain rainforests of Lamington National Park and Mount Barney National Park. He was the first European to explore the Bremer River, where he discovered deposits of limestone at a point later to become known as Ipswich.

Captain Logan unsuccessfully attempted to climb Mount Barney on 13 and 14 June 1827. On a return journey, Logan, Alan Cunningham, Charles Fraser and a small party attempted to ascend the peak, believing they were climbing Mount Warning, which was first identified by James Cook. A determined Logan carried on while the rest were too fearful of the hazardous and difficult climb. For atop the summit, which was at the time the highest point reached by a white man in Australia, Logan was able to see the true Mount Warning. Together with Cunningham they decided to call this range the McPherson Range. He named the peak he had just ascended, Mount Hooker but because his map was lost, the mountain was later given another name, Mount Barney. He also originally named the current Mount Lindsey, Mount Hooker.

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