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Map of the CBD. Brisbane City is the central suburb and central business district of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, ... historically known as Meanjin, ...
Meanjin (also Meeanjin, Mianjin) is a Turrbal/Yuggera word whose various etymologies suggest a meaning of "spike place" or "tulip wood". [b] It was used for the area now covered by Gardens Point and the Brisbane central business district. [8] [9] The Turrbal called the early Brisbane settlement "Umpi Korrumba" meaning "many houses". [10]
Brisbane (/ ˈ b r ɪ z b ən / ⓘ BRIZ-bən, [10] Turrbal/Yagara: Meanjin, Meaanjin, Maganjin or Magandjin) is the capital and largest city of the state of Queensland [11] and the third-most populous city in Australia, with a population over 2.7 million. [1]
The literary journal Meanjin takes its name from the Turrbal name for the land centred at Gardens Point on which Brisbane was founded. [18] This name is sometimes used for the greater Brisbane area. [19] [20]
The Fortitude 19th century cadastral map showing land plots for sale in Fortitude Valley. Originally inhabited by the Meanjin peoples of the Turrbal and Jagera/Yuggera Indigenous groups. Later on, Scottish immigrants from the ship Fortitude arrived in Brisbane in 1849 in hopes to take the land, enticed by Rev Dr John Dunmore Lang on the promise ...
Victoria Park, also known by its Turrbal name of Barrambin, [1] [2] is a heritage-listed park located in Spring Hill and Herston in Brisbane, Australia.It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 3 December 2007. [3]
The precise territorial boundaries of the Jagera are not clear. [15] [16] Norman Tindale defined the "Jagara" (Jagera) lands as encompassing the area around the Brisbane River from the Cleveland district west to the dividing range and north to the vicinity of Esk. [5]
Meanjin (/ m i ˈ æ n dʒ ɪ n /), formerly Meanjin Papers and Meanjin Quarterly, is one of Australia's longest-running literary magazines. Established in 1940 in Brisbane , it moved to Melbourne in 1945 and as of 2008 is an editorially independent imprint of Melbourne University Publishing .