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Mount Superbus lies Template:Convert south-west of the centre of Brisbane, Australia and is South East Queensland's highest peak at Template:Convert.<ref name="qepa2006">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At this elevation, it is the fifth-highest peak in Queensland, after Mount Bartle Frere at Template:Convert, Mount Bellenden Ker at Template:Convert, Mount Fisher at Template:Convert and Mount Carbine Tableland at Template:Convert, all in Far North Queensland.
It has an extensive logging history dating back to the mid-19th century. Mount Superbus was originally covered in dense hoop pine forests. Red cedar and other valuable timbers were also heavily logged in the area. It is now part of the Main Range National Park.
The peak is a remnant of the Main Range shield volcano which erupted between 25 and 22 million years ago.<ref name="gsa">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On the southernmost peak just below the summit lies the wreck of a RAAF Lincoln bomber.<ref name="Finley">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It crashed into the mountain in the early hours of Easter Saturday morning on 9 April 1955, during a medical evacuation of a sick baby from Townsville to Eagle Farm airfield in Brisbane.<ref name="Finley" /> The crew of four RAAF personnel and the two passengers were all killed in this accident.<ref name="Finley" /> Most of the wreckage still lies near the summit and is a popular day walk for bushwalkers.
The Condamine River rises from a spring located on the western slopes of Mount Superbus. Teviot Brook, a major tributary of the Logan River, has its headwaters on the eastern facing slopes of the mountain.