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Sunshine Coast hinterland a heaven in the hills

Sunshine Coast hinterland a heaven in the hills

By Explore
Updated March 4 2021 - 4:22pm, first published 10:13am

When Captain James Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia in 1770, he was so taken with the volcanic mountain range he encountered 1000 kilometres north of Botany Bay that he named it the Glass House Mountains – the shape of the peaks reminded him of glass furnaces back in his native Yorkshire.

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