The traditional country of the Kabi Kabi Peoples of south-east Queensland sits within the Sunshine Coast from Caboolture, north of Brisbane to the Gregory and Isaac Rivers south of Bundaberg. Kabi Kabi land takes in the eastern part of the coastal ranges, including the iconic Glasshouse Mountains and the great Mary River, which flows from the Conondale Ranges to the sea near Maryborough.  Kabi Kabi country includes an area that is home to some of Queensland’s most popular town centres and holiday destinations and is the primary destination for an increasing number of Queenslanders to call home. 
 

Kabi Kabi people are experts in living in a variety of landscapes from surf washed shores of the Coast and the tidal reaches of Pumistone Passage up to high dense rainforest dominated by Bunya Pines in the ranges. The resources of this part of Australia were abundant enough to sustain large populations and the Kabi Kabi people were divided into local groups each who traded with one another, practiced ceremony, coordinated marriage alliances and came together for celebrations and negotiation with their neighbours.
 

The Kabi Kabi people were also one of the main tribes involved in hosting the massive Bunya Festivals held every few years at the Bunya Mountains, just to the west of Kabi Kabi country. They had networks of trade, travel and ceremony with their Gooreng Gooreng neighbours to the north, their Wakka Wakka neighbours to the west and their Jinibara and Yugarupal neighbours to the south.
 

Kabi Kabi have been here for tens of thousands of years and have left behind them a a great number of sacred and ceremony sites on Kabi Kabi land.  Many bora rings (celebration and ceremony circles) still exist and can be visited, axe grinding and painting sites are still present within Kabi Kabi country. The individual peaks of the Glasshouse Mountains have traditional Kabi Kabi names like Mount Elimbah, Mount Ngungun, Mount Tibberoowuccum, and Mount Tibrogargan. Mudjimba Island is named after a Kabi Kabi story is the only rock island on the Sunshine Coast in contrast to Bribie Island, that is a sand island with no natural stone.