Kiels Mountain, Queensland

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Kiel Mountain
state = qld
city = Sunshine Coast


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propval = $393,000 [ [http://www.domain.com.au/public/SuburbProfile.aspx?mode=research&searchterm=Woombye domain.com.au] , accessed 19 December 2006]
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postcode = 4559
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lga = Sunshine Coast
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dist1 = 99
location1 = Brisbane
near-nw = Nambour
/ Coes Creek
near-n = Rosemount
near-ne = Diddillibah
near-e = Kiel Mountain
near-w = West Woombye
near-se = Forest Glen
near-s = Chevallum
near-sw = Palmwoods

Kiel Mountain is a suburb of Woombye, Queensland in Australia. At the summit of Kiel Mountain is Avatar's Abode, a 99 acre spiritual retreat about 100 kilometers north of Brisbane, Australia ( 26°39'26.19"S 153° 0'24.43"E) dedicated to Meher Baba. A large private school, Suncoast Christian College, and its associated Christian Outreach Centre is located by the juncture of the Kiel Mountain road and the old Bruce Highway. Australian evangelist Pastor Peter Foxhall lived with his family on an abandoned pineapple farm on Kentish Road, Kiel Mountain for some years.

Named after Henry August Keil (correct spelling) who settled on the eastern slopes in 1880. Kiel Mountain is often mistakenly referred to as Kiels Mountain.

Kiel Mountain school was built on land near the corner of Preston and Diddillibah Roads, between Woombye and Diddillibah. It opened on 23 September 1918 and closed on 15 April 1962.

On 7 December 2003 a 14-year-old boy named Daniel Morcombe disappeared while waiting for a bus on the Bruce Highway near the Kiel Mountain Road overpass. No trace of him has ever been found, despite a concerted media campaign by his parents and the Queensland police.

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