From the Archives ~ 26 July 1799
On 26th July 1799 Lt. Matthew Flinders made the first inland exploration of Glass Houses Mountains.
First sited 29 years earlier by Captain Cook who named all the mountains in the group of volcanic cores as Glass Houses as they apparently reminded him of the glass making 100 ft. high kilns or cones of his childhood in Yorkshire.
Matthew Flinders anchored his sloop “Norfolk” in Pumice Stone Channel and by longboat rowed up as far as he could go in a waterway now known as Glass House Creek. He then climbed Mt. Beerburrum to take sightings for his maps.
An attempt the following day to climb Mt. Tibrogargan for triangulation failed.