Cooloolabin, Queensland

Cooloolabin is a rural locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Cooloolabin had a population of 311 people.

Geography
Most of Cooloolabin is mountainous, densely forested and within the Mapleton National Park, including:


 * Mount Bottle And Glass (-26.5382°N, 152.8998°W) 235 m
 * Swain Peak (-26.5232°N, 152.9062°W) 290 m

Only two small valleys to the south are developed as rural residential areas, each around a dam reservoir:

The Cooloolabin Dam and the reservoir it impounds are in the south-west of the locality (-26.54722°N, 152.8803°W).

The northernmost part of Wappa Dam is in the south-east of Cooloolabin (-26.5635°N, 152.9202°W).

History
Cooloolabin is an Aboriginal word meaning "place of koalas".

Cooloolabin Provisional School opened on 28 January 1915. It became Cooloolabin State School on 1 September 1916. It closed in 1962. The school was on a 2 acre site at the western end of Cooloolabin Road (approx -26.5552°N, 152.8959°W).

Demographics
In the Cooloolabin had a population of 257 people.

In the, Cooloolabin had a population of 311 people.

Education
There are no schools in Cooloolabin. The nearest government primary school is Yandina State School in neighbouring Yandina to the east. The nearest government secondary school is Nambour State College in Nambour to the south-east.