Australia scenic viewpoint
Mount Coot-tha Lookout
You can see 102 km from here, looking south-west.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 102 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 102 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 4%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 17Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 224 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 17 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are from August to September.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Maywest10 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset61%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset68%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset66%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Mount Coot-tha Lookout.
Mountain overlook in Queensland, Australia
Mount Coot-tha Lookout is a scenic viewpoint in Australia, 224 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 102 km away, looking south-west.
17 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Beerwah (556 m), 66 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Pamphlett-Tennyson Sea Scout Groupcampsite · 6.0 km · 2 within 10 km
- Yumba Hostelplace to stay · 4.4 km · 166 within 10 km
- Taringanearest town · 2.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in TaringaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Brisbane International Airport (BNE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 19 km in a straight lineCar hire at BNE airport (Brisbane)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 11other viewpoints within 5 kmSimpson Falls, Mt Coot-Tha Lookout and 9 more
- 5named peaks within 5 kmMount Coot-tha (One Tree Hill), Constitution Hill, The Summit and 2 more
- 198shelters and huts within 5 km
- 211car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmInformation, Mount Coot-tha Visitor Information Centre
- 89restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmPamphlett-Tennyson Sea Scout Group, Oxley Pines Caravan Park
- 166places to stay within 10 kmYumba Hostel, Big Bird Backpacker Hostel, Aussieway Backpackers and 163 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Mount Coot-tha Lookout, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas64 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Mount Coot-tha Lookout
Australia
- 75Viewyas Score
- 102 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 224 mAltitude
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- 73Viewyas Score
- 101 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 8 mAltitude
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- 5Peaks in view
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- 1Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q19875790) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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