Coonowrin is one of the
Glass House Mountains
The Glass House Mountains are a cluster of thirteen hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The highest hill is Mount Beerwah at 556 metres above sea level, but the most identifiable of al ...
, located in
Queensland
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Australia
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, located 19 km north of
Caboolture
Caboolture () is a town and suburb in Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the suburb of Caboolture had a population of 26,433 people. It is located on the north side of the Caboolture River, which separates the town from Morayfi ...
or about one hour's drive north of
Brisbane
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. It is easily distinguished because of its rocky formation at the top. It is also known by its unofficial name Crookneck.
Dreamtime mythology
The mountains are the subjects of several
Aboriginal tales and Coonowrin is said to be the son of
Tibrogargan and
Beerwah. During a violent storm, Tibrogargan commanded his son Coonowrin to take his mother Beerwah and his siblings and help them move to safety. Being scared of the storm, Coonowrin instead ran off and when his father found him he hit him on the back of the head, resulting in Coonowrin's crooked neck. Tibrogargan was so ashamed of his son's cowardice that to this day he sits with his back to Coonowrin.
Climbing
Coonowrin has been the site of a great amount of climbing historically. However, the mountain was permanently closed to public access in March 1999 due to the high risk of rock falls that had previously killed and injured climbers. During the 1999
geological survey
A geological survey is the systematic investigation of the geology beneath a given piece of ground for the purpose of creating a geological map or model. Geological surveying employs techniques from the traditional walk-over survey, studying outc ...
of the mountain, questions were raised about the general slope stability on the north and west faces, and about individual block stability on the east and south faces.
A local woman climber was injured on the mountain after a fall sustained while descending from the summit on the south face with a male and female companion on the morning of 5 May 2013.
[Kate Clifford (5 May 2013)]
Caloundra woman still in critical condition after 40m fall
Sunshine Coast Daily. Sunshine Coast Newspaper Company. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
See also
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List of mountains in Australia
This is a list of mountains in Australia.
Highest points by state and territory
List of mountains in Australia by topographic prominence
This is a list of the top 50 mountains in Australia ranked by topographic prominence. Most of these ...
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List of volcanoes in Australia
This is a list of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes in Australia and its island territories. Note that the term volcano is used loosely as it can include groups of related volcanoes and vents that erupted at similar times with lava of rel ...
References
External links
The first women on Crookneck
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Glass House Mountains (Queensland)
Mountains of South East Queensland