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McIlwraith Range
The McIlwraith Range is a rugged, dissected granite plateau on the Cape York Peninsula of Far North Queensland, Australia. Part of the Great Dividing Range, the McIlwraith Range covers about and lies about east of the town of Coen, and north of Cairns. The Archer and Stewart Rivers rise in the range, with the Archer draining the range's western slopes into the Gulf of Carpenteria and the Stewart draining east into the Coral Sea. The range receives an annual rainfall of about .
==Environment==
The McIlwraith Range has been protected since its gazettal as the Kulla (McIlwraith Range) National Park. It is also listed on Australia’s Register of the National Estate. It was named after Sir Thomas McIlwraith (1835–1900), three time Premier of Queensland 1879-1883, 1888, and 1893.
With most of the range being about , and with a high point of , just north-east of Coen. The major peaks are Mount Carter, Mount White, Mount Newberry, and Mount Walsh. The range is largely vegetated with a variety of rainforest types, forming the southernmost limit of the ranges of many plants and animals characteristic of New Guinea. These include the spotted cuscus, green tree python and palm cockatoo.〔(KULLA (McIlwraith Range) National Park: Nature, culture and history ). Department of Environment and Resource Management. Retrieved on 20 October 2011.〕 An endemic species is the McIlwraith leaf-tailed gecko (''Orraya occultus'').
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