Glass House Mountains

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Australia South East Queensland the village of Glass House Mountains Named after a group of mountains 7 of them being declared a National Park Discovered by Captain James Cook in 1770 He gave them this name as they resembled the glass furnaces of his native Yorkshire They are all volcanic plugs eroded in time in an otherwise flat landscape

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Location: glass house mountains queensland australia
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