Glass House Mountains Walking Track Classifi Cation Occurring Lookouts
Explore Glass House Mountains and surrounds National parks and forests The volcanic peaks of the Glass House Mountains rise dramatically from the surrounding Sunshine Aboriginal links to the land European settlement Coast landscape. For traditional Aboriginal people, this area was a special During the 1860s, many things changed for the Aboriginal For many generations, these mountains have held meeting place for ceremonies and trading. The Glass people here. Vast areas of timber were felled and burnt great spiritual signifi cance for Aboriginal people. Their House Mountains area is considered sacred ground, with to make way for farming and stock. The railway from creation stories and beliefs are refl ected in strong many ceremonial sites still present and protected today. Caboolture to Landsborough, built in 1890, opened the links that remain in the Aboriginal community today. way for more intense settlement. Large festivals and gatherings, such as bunya nut Individually, the mountain peaks have traditional festivals, were held at times when local food sources As part of the Beerburrum soldier settlement scheme Aboriginal names. Collectively they are known as were peaking. This way a crowd of hundreds of people in the early 1900s, ex-servicemen and their families the Glass House Mountains — a name given to them could be catered for with minimal effort. Aboriginal were allocated land and grew pineapples. Many farms, by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770. In the following people could read nature’s “signs” and knew that events, however, were unsuccessful and farmers turned to the extract from Cook’s journal on Thursday, such as certain trees in fl ower, heralded another food timber industry to survive.
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