Glass House Mountains
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Aerial view of the Glass House Mountains
In the area of Glass House Mountains, also spelled Glasshouse Mountains, located twelve volcanic mountains that rise abruptly from the relatively flat plane on the Sunshine Coast in the inland of Queensland in Australia. The mountains are about 70 kilometers north of Brisbane. The area is part of the Great Dividing Range. The plane between and around the mountains is mainly used for the cultivation of pineapple, for poultry and for forestry and timber industry.
History
Discovery
The name Glass House Mountains was awarded by James Cook on 17 May 1770, when he sailed along the first European to Australia's east coast and the mountains sighted. The surveys reminded him of the glass melting furnace in his native Yorkshire. Matthew Flinders explored the area in 1799 after his tour of the Pumicestone Passage and boarded the first European to Mount Beerburrum.
Colonization
During the 1860s, the settlement of the area began, and large areas of forest were cleared for agriculture and livestock. In 1890 the railway from Caboolture to Landsborough, which allowed better development. After the Beerburrum Soldier Settlement Scheme former soldiers and their families were in the early 1900s, land planted to pineapple and were farmers. However, many farms were not economically successful, and former farmer had some time to work in the timber industry, which was built in Campbellsville on the banks of Coochin Creek and the wood to the Pumicestone Passage for further shipment flözte.
In the early 1930s, tree plantations were established, as well as in the 1980s and 1990s, when Pinus caribaea, Pinus elliottii and hybrids of these species have been planted. The logging in the plantations in Queensland provides an annual amount of one billion Australian dollars.
Geology
The mountains of the Glass House Mountains were formed by hot molten lava that to 27 million years solidified into hard rock in the form of volcanic cores before 26. The lava came from the East Australia hotspot. The mountains are columns of Comendite, a bright blue-gray rhyolite and trachyte, which solidified quickly. The surrounding this hard rock soft rock weathered in the subsequent period, and the volcanic plug emerged, which can be seen today. The mountains stand in a relatively narrow spatial reference so that it can be assumed that they were once connected.
Mountains
All the mountains are located in the Glass House Mountains National Park. Some of the surveys represent volcanic columns represent, in particular the Mount Coonowrin, Mount Ngungun and Mount Beerwah with the organ pipes. These pillars are the result of lava outflows. Chance can be found in the mountains superficial cavities that were formed by wind and Erison by hydrolytic weathering in contact with groundwater.
The highest mountain is Mount Beerwah with a height of 556 meters above sea level. The most remarkable mountain is but the Mount Tibrogargan which like a giant sitting, bristling towards the lake monkey stands on a street.
From the highest peaks can be seen on clear days to Brisbane, Bribie Iceland, Iceland Moreton, see the Pumicestone Passage and in the territories of the Sunshine Coast.
- Mount Beerburrum, 276 m
- Mount Beerwah, 556 m
- Mount Coochin, 235 m
- Mount Coonowrin or crookneck, 377 m
- Mount Elimbah, 129 m
- Mount Miketeebumulgrai, 199 m
- Mount Ngungun, 253 m
- Mount Tibberoowuccum, 220 m
- Mount Tibrogargan, 364 m
- Mount Tunbubudla or Twins, 312 and 293 m
- Wild Horse Mountain and Round Mountain, 123 m
Mount Beerwah, 555 m high
Mount Coonowrin, 377 m high
Dreamtime
The Glass House Mountains are located in the traditional land of the Aboriginal people of the Gubbi Gubbi. In their ideas and stories of the Dreamtime, the mountains are sons and daughters of father and mother Mount Tibrogargan Mount Beerwah. The oldest child is Mount Coonowrin.
Tibrogargan saw that the lake rose, and ordered Coonowrin that he should bring his pregnant Beerwah to safety. Instead Coonowrin fled in panic. Enraged pursued him Tibrogargan and hit too hard so that he dislocated his neck.
When the danger was over, Coonowrin felt tremendously guilty and asked his father, his brothers and sisters for forgiveness, but all turned because of this shame from him. This meant that only small currents flow through the mountain area. Tibrogargan Coonowrin turned his back and staring at the lake, so as not to have to look at his son, who will still hang his head in shame, crying.
The mountains are of cultural significance for Aboriginal people. If the Aborigines claim their Native Title, access to the mountains would be limited because they consider them as spiritual places of their Dreamtime. Southeast of the town of Glass House Mountains is a mythical place, a so-called Bora Ring, a place of initiation of boys.
Tourism
The hill country is opened up to tourists for boating, fishing, camping, picnicking, and with fire places and toilets. In the town of Beerwah, the Australia Zoo.
There are hiking trails and some parking spaces close to tourist infrastructure to all the mountains. Few mountain ascents require mountaineering skills, for example, the 123 meter high Wildhorse Mountain rose with the mountaineering Difficulty of 3 and Mount Beerwah of 5 with a rising time of about three hours and a recommended drinking water supply of three liters per person. It should be noted that part of the mountain can not be climbed because of acute rockfall.