Walshs Pyramid
Granite peak eroded into an uncanny natural pyramid over a sugar-farming valley.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Walshs Pyramid, the granite peak towering over Gordonvale near Cairns, follows a claim that once attached itself to this mountain: a self-taught historian named Ray Johnson believed it held the tomb of an ancient Egyptian royal, based on carvings found near Sydney. It traces how that idea spread through British newspapers and television in the decades after Johnson's death. Best heard staring straight up the mountain's improbably straight-edged face.
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