Cooroy Mountain, Queensland Explained

Type:suburb
Cooroy Mountain
State:qld
Coordinates:-26.4319°N 152.9511°W
Local Map:yes
Zoom:11
Pop:148
Postcode:4563
Elevation:100-422
Area:9.2
Timezone:AEST
Utc:+10:00
Dist1:15.2
Dir1:WSW
Location1:Tewantin
Dist2:49.9
Dir2:NNW
Location2:Mooloolaba
Dist3:134
Dir3:N
Location3:Brisbane
Lga:Shire of Noosa
Stategov:Noosa
Fedgov:Wide Bay
Near-N:Lake MacDonald
Near-Ne:Tinbeerwah
Near-E:Tinbeerwah
Near-Se:Doonan
Near-S:Eumundi
Near-Sw:Eerwah Vale
Near-W:Cooroy
Near-Nw:Lake MacDonald

Cooroy Mountain is a rural locality in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia.[1] In the, Cooroy Mountain had a population of 148 people.

Geography

Mount Cooroy is in the south-east of the locality (-26.4325°N 152.9533°W) and rises to above sea level.[2] [3] It is within the Mount Cooroy Conservation Park.

Apart from the protected area, the remainder of the locality is used for a mix of rural residential housing and grazing on native vegetation.

History

Cooroy Mountain's name came from Mount Cooroy, which was originally called Coorooey, from the Aboriginal word for possum, kurui.[4]

Kuri'bigil'ba is the name of Cooroy Mountain in the dialect of the Kabi speaking aboriginal peoples of this area. It means the place where the Sun God came down to Dha (Earth). It is believed the mountain turned yellow once a year due to the flowering of an unknown tree.[5] Most likely due to the endemic silky oak tree (Grevillea robusta) which has glabrous yellowish orange flowers from around September to November.

The Kabi Kabi people are the traditional owners of the land. While the Kabi people and their language group are not extinct, many are no longer in the local area of Cooroy mountain as a result of having been moved out of the area as a result of government policies in the past.[6] [7]

Between 2008 and 2013, Cooroy Mountain (and the rest of the Shire of Noosa) was within Sunshine Coast Region, due to an enforced amalgamation of local government areas that was subsequently reversed.[8] [9]

Demographics

In the, Cooroy Mountain had a population of 136 people.

In the, Cooroy Mountain had a population of 148 people.

Education

There are no schools in Cooroy Mountain. The nearest government primary schools are Cooroy State School in neighbouring Cooroy to the west and Eumundi State School in neighbouring Eumundi to the south. The nearest government secondary school is the Noosa District State High School, which has its junior campus in Pomona to the north-west and its senior campus in neighbouring Cooroy to the west.

Notes and References

  1. 5 November 2019.
  2. Web site: 12 November 2020 . Mountain peaks and capes - Queensland . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201125215033/https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/geographic-features-queensland-series/resource/06ff12a9-862e-4aac-bf9d-693f0a63b4c9 . 25 November 2020 . 25 November 2020 . Queensland Open Data . Queensland Government.
  3. 25 November 2020.
  4. http://www.dovenetq.net.au/~piula/Placenames/page17.html South East Queensland - Place Names
  5. Tales of a Warrior series of books by Brett Green, Gympie
  6. Web site: Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi). gubbigubbi.com. 2019-11-14. 31 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160331051609/http://www.gubbigubbi.com/. live.
  7. Web site: Gubbi Gubbi . 2014-05-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140517232411/http://www.triballink.com.au/index.php/gubbigubbi . 17 May 2014 .
  8. Web site: Backward Glance: History of Local Government on the Sunshine Coast . 2023-08-02 . . 2 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230802011827/https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/news/Backward-Glance-history-of-local-government-160316 . live .
  9. Web site: 2 January 2014 . The Noosa De-amalgamation: Building a New Organisation . 2 August 2023 . . 8-9 . 6 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230406073934/https://www.noosa.qld.gov.au/downloads/file/6/2014-01-13-deamalgamation-report-attachment-pdf . live .