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Glass House Mountains is a national park in Queensland ( Australia ), 70 km north of Brisbane . It consists of a flat plain punctuated by volcanic plugs, the cores of extinct volcanoes that formed 25 million to 27 million years ago. The mountains would once have had Pyroclastic exteriors, but these have eroded away. The Glass House Mountains were named by James Cook , the mountatins at the time were wet from fresh rain. When Cook looked at the mountains at sea, the water reflected from the mountains and looked similar to the glasshouses in England. Hence Cook named them the Glasshouse Mountains. The Glass House Mountains are:
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ABORIGINAL LEGEND In the Aboriginal Legend the mountains are members of a family with the father being Mount Tibrogargan and the mother Mount Beerwah . All of the other mountains are sons and daughters with the eldest being Mount Coonowrin . Tibrogargan, the father, observes that the sea is rising and asks that Conowrin the eldest son help their pregnant mother to safety. Terrified, Conowrin instead flees. Infuriated by his sons cowardice Tibrogargan pursues him and strikes him so hard that he dislocates Conowrin’s neck. Once the danger passes Conowrin feels tremendous guilt for his actions and asks his father, brothers and sisters for forgiveness but all wept with shame. This is said to explain the many small streams that flow through the area. Tibrogargan turned his back on Conowrin and gazes out to sea refusing to look at his son Conowrin who continues to hang his head in shame and cry. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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