Cooroy Mountain is a suburb of Noosa,
Queensland, Australia. Cooroy Mountain is within
the local government area of Shire of Noosa
Cooroy Mountain's name came from Mount
Cooroy, which was originally called Coorooey,
from the Aboriginal word for possum, kurui.
Kuri'bigil'ba is the name of Cooroy Mountain in the
dialect of the now extinct Kabi speaking aboriginal
peoples of this area. It means the place where the
Sun God came down to Dha (Earth). It is believed
the mountain turned yellow once a year due to
the flowering of an unknown tree.