Cooloolabin, Queensland

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

• Mount Bottle And Glass (26°32′18″S 152°53′59″E / 26.5382°S 152.8998°E / -26.5382; 152.8998 (Mount Bottle And Glass)) 235 metres (771 ft)^[3][4]
• Swain Peak (26°31′24″S 152°54′22″E / 26.5232°S 152.9062°E / -26.5232; 152.9062 (Swain Peak)) 290 metres (950 ft)^[3][5]

Only two small valleys to the south are developed as rural residential areas, each around a dam reservoir:^[6]

The Cooloolabin Dam and the reservoir it impounds are in the south-west of the locality (26°32′50″S 152°52′49″E / 26.54722°S 152.8803°E / -26.54722; 152.8803 (Cooloolabin Dam)).^[7]

The northernmost part of Wappa Dam is in the south-east of Cooloolabin (26°33′49″S 152°55′13″E / 26.5635°S 152.9202°E / -26.5635; 152.9202 (Wappa Dam)).^[8]

Cooloolabin is an Aboriginal word meaning "place of koalas".^[2]

Cooloolabin Provisional School opened on 28 January 1915.^[9][10] It became Cooloolabin State School on 1 September 1916.^[11] It closed in 1962.^[12] The school was on a 2-acre (0.81 ha) site at the western end of Cooloolabin Road (approx 26°33′19″S 152°53′45″E / 26.5552°S 152.8959°E / -26.5552; 152.8959 (Cooloolabin State School (former))).^{[13][14][15][16]}

In the 2016 census Cooloolabin had a population of 257 people.^[17]

In the 2021 census, Cooloolabin had a population of 311 people.^[1]