Mount Coot-tha Lookout, 1930

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Brisbane looking from the Mount Coot-tha Lookout, Sir Samuel Griffith Drive, Mount Coot-tha, June 1930

Taken from Cairns Post, Friday 22 June 1923:

MOUNT COOT-THA.
A "SUGAR BAG" NEAR BRISBANE.

Out a few miles from Brisbane and within easy walking distance of trams and trains is the terminating point of Taylor's Range, Mount Coot-tha.

The name is aboriginal, signifying honey. In the days when the blacks had their camps on the slopes of the hills and hunted in the scrubs, the locality was famous for the "sugar bags" the honey of the little stingless native bee (writes the Queensland correpsondent to the "Age").

The outlook from Mt. Coot-tha is very beautfiul. Sir Henry Braddon, who with other Chamber of Commercers lately visited the spot, said that several inter-State visitors had an animated discussion as to whether any city in Australia had a finer panoramic outlook.

"We were inclined to agree as a whole, after a little pressing of royal claims, that there was really nothing to surpass the truly wonderful views of the city which were spread before us from the range of hills."

Cheavlier, the artist who came to Australia some years ago with the Duke of Edinburgh, was credited with the remark, that the most beautiful view in the world was from the top of the Bulli Pass in New South Wales. Of course he had not seen Mount Coot-tha.


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View from Mt Coot-tha overlooking the cityscape

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