Glass House Mountains
Glass House Mountains is a rural hinterland town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Glass House Mountains had a population of 5,601 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 4,070 residents
- Description: town in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Glass House Mountains, Queensland”, “Glass House Mountains, Queensland, Australia”, and “Glasshouse Mountains”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Glass House Mountains and Glasshouse Mountains railway station.
Glass House Mountains
Photo: Paul Balfe, CC BY 2.0.
The Glass House Mountains are a popular tourist site in the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. The mountains were named by Captain Cook, who in 1770 thought they looked like glass houses as he sailed along the eastern coast of Australia.
Glasshouse Mountains railway station
Railway station
Photo: TravellerQLD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glasshouse Mountains railway station is located on the North Coast line in Queensland, Australia. It serves the town of Glass House Mountains in the Sunshine Coast Region.
Mount Ngungun
Peak
Mount Ngungun is the sixth tallest of the Glass House Mountains at 253 metres. It has a well maintained walking trail to the summit that affords good views.
Glass House Mountains
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-26.89808° or 26° 53′ 53″ southLongitude
152.95712° or 152° 57′ 26″ eastPopulation
4,070Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)Open location code
5R5J4X24+QROpenStreetMap ID
node 4518441888OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2165458Wikidata ID
Q5567050
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Glass House Mountains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل غلاس هاوس”
- Asturian: “Glass House Mountains”
- Chinese: “玻璃屋山”
- Dutch: “Glass House Mountains”
- French: “Glass House Mountains”
- Malay: “Pergunungan Glass House”
- Polish: “Glass House Mountains”
- Russian: “Гласс Хауз Маунтинс”
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