The map label “Gondwana Rain Forest” near Diwan points travelers toward the Daintree and Cape Tribulation section of Daintree National Park (CYPAL), north of the Daintree River in Queensland. The scientifically correct World Heritage context is the Wet Tropics of Queensland, inscribed by UNESCO in 1988. It should not be confused with the separately listed Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, whose component reserves lie much farther south.
The distinction strengthens rather than diminishes the story. UNESCO describes the Wet Tropics as an approximately 450-kilometre coastal region containing some 894,420 hectares, largely tropical rainforest. Relict plants preserve evidence of evolutionary lineages stretching back toward Gondwana, while the sharp transition from rainforest to sandy coast between the Daintree River and Cedar Bay creates one of Australia's exceptional natural landscapes. The area is also the Country of Eastern Kuku Yalanji people, whose cultural relationship with the forest long predates national-park and World Heritage designations.