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Mount Coot-tha Lookout & Kiosk is a heritage-listed lookout at Sir Samuel Griffith Drive, Mount Coot-tha, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. At 226 metres (741 ft) above sea level, [1] [2] it is the best known vantage point from which to view the city and surrounds. [3] It was built from 1918 to c. 1950. It is also known as One-Tree-Hill.
Kuta Cafe (left), and Summit Restaurant (right), at the Mount Coot-tha lookout. The Mount Coot-tha Reserve contains more than 1,500 hectares of natural bushland, including J C Slaughter Falls along Ithaca Creek, as well as native wildlife. [19] Mount Coot-tha Reserve also shares a border with Brisbane Forest Park, which adds a further 25,000 ...
The Mount Coot-tha summit track travels from the J C Slaughter Falls Picnic Area through open eucalyptus forest. The grade is steep over short sections. Mount Coot-tha Lookout offers sweeping views of the city, Moreton Bay, Stradbroke Island and the southern ranges. The track is classified as an easy walk and takes about one hour and is 3.8 ...
Looking at the view has been the most popular and continuing form of recreation on Mount Coot-tha and in 1886, to accommodate people's needs, a shelter shed and water tank were erected on the area of the present Mt Coot-tha Lookout. In 1901 a pedestal and directional dial, identifying elements of the panorama, were installed.
Mount Coot-tha (and TV towers) - as seen from The Gap. Mount Coot-tha, on which there is a lookout, botanical gardens, a planetarium and television towers, has multiple peaks. The highest of these is also the highest peak of the Taylor Range, at 287 m.
The Mount Coot-tha Forest is approximately 1,500 hectares (3,700 acres) of open eucalypt forest forming the south-eastern part of D'Aguilar National Park. These two areas make up a 30,000-hectare (74,000-acre) forest that extends into suburban Brisbane. It is home to powerful owls, goshawks, eagles, wrens and robins as well as possums and bats ...
Also located at the gardens is the Mount Coot-tha Library operated by Brisbane City Council. [4] Unlike most public libraries in Brisbane which have general collections, this library holds a specialist collection about botany and astronomy and related topics, reflecting its location within the botanic garden and the Brisbane Planetarium also on ...
Mount Coot-tha Forest; Mount Coot-tha Lookout; S. Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium This page was last edited on 17 October 2022, at 08:37 (UTC). ...