The Glass House Mountains National Park is a heritage-listed national park in the Glass House Mountains, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is also known as Beerburrum Forest Reserve. It is located 70 km (43 miles) north of Brisbane and consists of a flat plain dotted by volcanic plugs of rhyolite and trachyte, the cores of extinct volcanoes that formed 27 million to 26 million years ago. millions of years. Mountains once would have had pyroclastic exteriors, but these have eroded.
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A landscape of national importance that offers panoramic views, located on the Costa del Sol, a group of eleven hills are collectively known as the Mountains of the Glass House. Just over an hour north of Brisbane are the remnants of volcanic activity that occurred 25-27 million years ago, which were added to Australia's National Heritage List in 2006.
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Culturally significant to the Gubbi Gubbi people, traditional owners, as a special meeting place for ceremonies and trade among the aborigines. Also, these hills are part of the Aboriginal legend of a family: the most identifiable hill, Mount Tibrogargan, is the father, the highest hill, Mount Beerwah is the pregnant mother, and the other mountains are his sons and daughters. Although all offer panoramic views.