The Glass House Mountains were named by Lieutenant James Cook, when he was sailing north during his epic journey along Australia’s east coast. He navigated the area on May 17, 1770 in HM Bark Endeavour.
In his journal of that day Cook wrote ‘these hills lie but a little way inland, and not from each other: they are remarkable for the singular form of their elevation, which very much resembles a glass house, and for this reason I called them Glass Houses’.
The glass houses referred to by Cook were the glass making foundries in Yorkshire, England where he was born.
(https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Council/News-Centre/Backward-Glance-and-the-history-of-the-name-Glass-House-Mountains-300816)
The national heritage listed Glasshouse Mountains by