Aussie Mountains With A Yorkshire Connection

Though I've blipped this view (from a different angle) before, when I drove past this morning the cloud formations made me stop and take a few pics.

And I also chose this image in sympathy for all Blippers in the UK who are suffering such appalling weather conditions. Here's some blue sky even though it seems to have deserted Britain for now.

Those peaks are collectively known as The Glasshouse Mountains; here's what Wikipedia has to say about them:-

The Glass House Mountains are a group of eleven hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The highest mountain is Mount Beerwah at 556 m above sea level, but the most identifiable of all the mountains is Mount Tibrogargan which appears like a giant ape sitting by the roadside staring out to sea.

The mountains were named by explorer Captain James Cook on 17 May 1770. The peaks reminded him of the glass furnaces in his home county of Yorkshire.

The range was formed as molten lava cooled to form hard rock in the cores of volcanoes between 26-27 million years ago. The source of the lava was from the East Australia hotspot. The cores of the mountains contain columns of comendite from lava which cools quickly into a hard rock. The surrounding softer rocks have been eroded in the subsequent time, forming the spectacular volcanic plugs that remain today.