Mount Tibrogargan
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Mount Tibrogargan is one of the ten extinct volcanic mountains in the Glass House Mountains National Park, north-northwest of Brisbane, Australia.
Mount Tibrogargan is one of the most easily recognised mountains in south-east Queensland, bearing some resemblance to a gorilla or old man hunched over. Mount Tibrogargan is also the second steepest of the Glass House Mountains after Mount Coonowrin, and is 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 mountaineers. 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.
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.
