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Mount Bartle Frere

1,611 m5,285 ft
Easiest route
7.6 km+1,059 m · about 3.5 h
Prominence
1,316 m4,318 ft
Isolation
at least 200 km
Tonight
11°CPartly cloudy · Wind 15 km/h NE

Mount Bartle Frere is a 1,611 m (5,285 ft) mountain in the Bellenden Ker Range, Queensland, Australia.

All facts
Elevation
1,611 m · 5,285 ft
Range
Bellenden Ker Range
Region
Queensland, Australia
Spanish name
Monte Bartle Frere
Coordinates
17.3996° S, 145.8182° E
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Route

How to get to the top of Mount Bartle Frere

2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Parking, 6.3 km WNW of Mount Bartle Frere

Distance
7.6 kmone way
Climb
+1,059 m−159 m (3,474 ft up)
Time up
about 3.5 h
Difficulty
Grade not mapped
Mount Bartle Frere elevation profile
8001,0001,2001,4001,60007.6 kmMount Bartle Frere

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Other routes 1
  • Parking, 6.1 km SE of Mount Bartle Frere7.4 km · +1,513 m · about 4.5 h
    Grade not mappedGPXKML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Mount Bartle Frere 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 9.2 × 9.2 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Mount Bartle Frere terrain and contours

100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.
Weather

Mount Bartle Frere weather

Today · Rain showers · 11 / 20°C (52 / 68°F) · 2.5 mm · Wind 15 km/h NE

Mount Bartle Frere forecast for the summit, about 1,611 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 120 m.

  • Today11°20°2.5 mm15 km/h NEBase 20 / 28°
  • Sun11°19°4.8 mm13 km/h EBase 20 / 27°
  • Mon11°21°–12 km/h SEBase 19 / 29°
  • Tue14°20°3.3 mm8 km/h EBase 22 / 28°
  • Wed14°19°4.4 mm9 km/h EBase 23 / 27°
  • Thu14°18°4.8 mm13 km/h SEBase 23 / 27°
  • Fri14°19°3.0 mm9 km/h EBase 23 / 27°
  • Sat12°18°0.1 mm6 km/h SEBase 20 / 27°
  • Sun10°20°2.1 mm8 km/h EBase 19 / 28°
  • Mon13°20°1.2 mm8 km/h EBase 22 / 28°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Mount Bartle Frere

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Bartle Frere, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

All mapped places 7
PlaceDistance
Eastern Summit CampCampsite0.5 km SE
Western Summit CampCampsite0.5 km NW
Evacuation HutHut0.6 km SE
Big Rock CampCampsite3.4 km SE
Parking6.1 km SE
Parking6.3 km WNW
Parking6.6 km SE
Slope

How steep is the route to Mount Bartle Frere?

The easiest mapped route, 7.6 km from 711 m to 1,611 m. Steepest stretch: 29°.

0 km · 711 m7.6 km · 1,611 m
  • 0–15°5.8 km
  • 15–30°1.8 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 90 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 99.7%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 4.6 km, measured from the Mount Bartle Frere summit.

NESW2 km5 km123
Summit list 3
  1. 1Bartle Frere (North Peak)1,524 m 2.0 km N
  2. 2Bartle Frere (North West Peak)1,476 m 2.4 km NW
  3. 3Broken Nose962 m 3.2 km SSE
Where it sits

Where Mount Bartle Frere sits

Range
Great Dividing Range31
Region
Queensland12Australia156Oceania282
Ranked in 1
Nearby

Nearby places

More in the Great Dividing Range 6
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Downloads

Mount Bartle Frere downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 1,614 m at the summit; the official height is 1,611 m.Official 1,611 mThis map 1,614 m

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)1,611 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)1,614 m+3 m
Copernicus GLO-901,608 m-3 m

Data sources

Terrain
Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-06-01)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Routes, Camping & parking
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
Summits
© OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
Accuracy comparison, Panorama
Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia