Mount Tibrogargan

Mount Tibrogargan
Elevation	364 m (1,194 ft)
Location
Location	Queensland, Australia
Range	Glass House Mountains

Mount Tibrogargan is one of the many mountains in the Glass House Mountains National Park, north-northwest of Brisbane, Australia. It is a volcanic plug of hard alkali rhyolite that squeezed up into the vents of an ancient volcano 27 million years ago.^[1]

Tibrogargan is one of the most easily recognised mountains in South East Queensland, bearing some resemblance to a gorilla or old man hunched over. However, in 2004 parts of the rock face that resembles the eyes eroded and subsequently crumbled off. The name Tibrogargan comes from the Undanbi words chibur flying squirrel and kaiyathin biting.

Steep Tibrogargan Summit Track

In the mythology of the region, Tibrogargan was the father of all the other Glass House Mountains except Beerwah, his wife. It was said that Tibrogargan saw a rising of the waters from the sea, and called to his son Coonowrin to take his mother Beerwah to a safe place; however, Coonowrin failed to do so, and in anger Tibrogargan clubbed Coonowrin and broke his neck.

Tibrogargan is the second steepest of the Glass House Mountains after Mount Coonowrin, and is also quite high for the region at 364 metres (although still almost 200 m shorter than Beerwah, the tallest of the group), so it is a popular target for Bushwalkers, Rockclimbers and Tourists. The latter group are regularly victims of their own inexperience and poor planning and are the subject of rescues by the State Emergency Service and rescue helicopters.^[2][3][4]

There are other less demanding walking trails in the immediate surroundings of Tibrogargan, including the Tibrogargan Circuit (3.3 km) and the Trachyte Circuit (5.6 km). All trails leave from the carpark at the base of Tibrogargan, including the summit climb.

See also

Queensland portal

• List of volcanoes in Australia
• List of mountains in Australia

References

1. ^ Rocks and landscapes of the Sunshine Coast by Warwick Willmott, Brisbane: Geological Society of Australia Queensland Division, 2007
2. ^ http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23906606-3102,00.html
3. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1758104.htm
4. ^ http://www.smh.com.au/travel/rock-how-i-became-that-idiot-rescued-off-a-mountain-20100510-uoe5.html

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2011/03/04/woman-nude-sunshine-coast-mountain-climb-naked/

External links

View from summit http://www.360cities.net/image/mount-tibrogargan-summit#218.60,-8.30,70.0

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Coordinates: 26°56′S 152°57′E / 26.933°S 152.95°E / -26.933; 152.95