The Glass House Mountains were named by Captain Cook as he sailed up the Queensland coast in 1770. They were so called as the mountains, former volcanic plugs, reminded him of huge glass furnaces in his native Yorkshire. The mountains are situated an easy 90 minute drive North- East of Brisbane or 30 minutes West of Bribie Island. There are twelve of them with names that compete with anything else we saw in Australia (Miketeebumulgrai, Tibberoowuccum, Tibrogragan). The highest stands at 555 meters and nearly all have walking trails with varying degrees of difficulty.
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