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The Brisbane River (Turrbal: Maiwar) is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley , the first European to explore the river, named it after the Governor of New South Wales , Sir Thomas Brisbane in 1823.
On 2 June the decision to form a rugby union association was made at the Exchange hotel in Brisbane. [20] The same year Queensland's population passed the 250,000 mark. In 1887, the Brisbane-Wallangarra railway line was opened, and in 1888 there was a 483-mile (777 km) line opened between Brisbane and Charleville.
A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods (2nd ed. University of Queensland Press, 2023) Fisher, Rod, ed. (1990). Brisbane : the Aboriginal presence 1824-1860. Brisbane History Group. ISBN 0958782695. Greenwood, Gordon; Laverty, John (1959). Brisbane 1859 to 1959: a history of local government (PDF). Oswald Ziegler for the ...
The history of Queensland encompasses both a long Aboriginal Australian presence as well as the more recent periods of European colonisation and as a state of Australia. [1] Before being charted and claimed for the Kingdom of Great Britain by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770, the coast of north-eastern Australia was explored by Dutch and French ...
2004 Schapelle Corby flies from Brisbane to Bali, leading to arrest and nine-year imprisonment for drug importation. 2008 Quentin Bryce appointed Governor-General. 2011 Brisbane River flooding. 2012 Li Cunxin appointed artistic director of Queensland Ballet. 2012 Murder of Allison Baden-Clay. 2013 Brisbane City Hall reopened after three-year ...
The complex is laid out with the 40-storey office tower standing centrally on the site's western (Eagle Street) edge, with a low-rise, mixed-use plaza building (fronting the Brisbane River to the south of the office tower) and a public plaza that steps down towards the river. The office tower's triangular form maximises views out to the river.
The Early Streets of Brisbane is a heritage-listed archaeological site at sections of Albert Street, George Street, William Street, North Quay, and Queen's Wharf Road in Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1825 onwards.
In the north of Pinkenba, it is situated near the northern bank of the mouth of the Brisbane River. The north-easternmost point of Myrtletown at the mouth of the Brisbane River is Luggage Point (also called Uniacke Point) at ( 27°22′41″S 153°09′35″E / 27.3781°S 153.1597°E / -27.3781; 153.1597 ( Lugguage