

In the 1820s, former convicts John Finnegan, Thomas Pamphlett and Richard Parsons landed on Moreton Island after becoming hopelessly lost fetching cedar. In 1770, James Cook on the deck of HM Bark Endeavour became the first known European to sight the Glass House Mountains, located south-west of Caloundra. Log rafting on the Noosa River, 1889 Pineapple plantation in the 1930s Mount Beerwah is part of the Glass House Mountains National Park The Gubbi Gubbi language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Sunshine Coast Region and Gympie Region, particularly the towns of Caloundra, Noosa Heads, Gympie and extending north towards Maryborough and south to Caboolture. Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi, Cabbee, Carbi, Gabi Gabi) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Gubbi Gubbi country. The groups were nomadic, gathering food en-route as they moved from one campsite to the next. The two tribes were friendly and intermarried and had the same class restrictions. The country of the Wakka Wakka people was about 13,000 km 2 (5,000 sq mi) that was roughly triangular to the west of the Kabi, including a small part of the Dawson, and meeting the northern Kabi boundary at Walla.

The territory of the Kabi includes about 21,000 square kilometres (8,200 sq mi) along the coastline from the 27th parallel northward to the mouth of the Burrum River. The earliest residents of the Sunshine Coast were the indigenous Gubbi Gubbi and Wakka Wakka people. History Aerial vista of the University of the Sunshine Coast and its surrounds in 2023. The population of the area has grown steadily at an average annual rate of 2.4% year-on-year over the five years to 2018. Since 2014, the Sunshine Coast district has been split into two local government areas, the Sunshine Coast Region and the Shire of Noosa, which administer the southern and northern parts of the Sunshine Coast respectively.Īs of June 2021, with an estimated urban population of 398,840, the Sunshine Coast is the fifth most populated area in Queensland and the 9th most populous in the country. Nambour and Maleny have developed as primary commercial centres for the hinterland. The area has several coastal hubs at Caloundra, Kawana Waters, Maroochydore and Noosa Heads. Located 100 km (62 mi) north of the centre of Brisbane in South East Queensland, on the Coral Sea coastline, its urban area spans approximately 60 km (37 mi) of coastline and hinterland from Pelican Waters to Tewantin. It is the district defined in 1967 as "the area contained in the Shires of Landsborough, Maroochy and Noosa, but excluding Bribie Island". The Sunshine Coast is a peri-urban region in South East Queensland, Australia.
