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The Glass House Mountains are a group of eleven hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain on the Sunshine Coast Queensland Australia. The highest mountain is Mount Beerwah at 556 m above sea level but the most identifiable of all the mountains is Mount Tibrogargan which appears like a giant ape sitting by the roadside staring out to sea.The mountains were named by explorer Captain James Cook on 17 May 1770. The peaks reminded him of the glass furnaces in his home county of Yorkshire.
