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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.
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 ...
The name Brisbane is named to honour Sir Thomas Brisbane (1773–1860) who was Governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825. [1] [2] When it was given its name and declared as a town in 1834, to replace its penal colony status, [3] Brisbane was still part of the Colony of New South Wales.
Mo Mountain Mutts is an American dog-walking and dog-training company based in Skagway, Alaska. [1] It came to public attention in 2023, when a video of its dog bus went viral. [2] The business is run by Mo and Lee Thompson, natives of Michigan who moved to Alaska in 2014. [2] They went full-time in August 2021. [3]
1968 Brisbane City Council announces conversion of tram and trolley-bus systems to all-bus operations. 1968 Romantic drama Age of Consent filmed partly in Brisbane, with James Mason and Helen Mirren. 1969 Tram and trolley bus systems close, new Victoria Bridge opened. 1971 Demonstrations and injuries during state of emergency for Springbok tour.
Human habitation of the Australian continent began with the migration of the ancestors of today's Aboriginal Australians by land bridges and short sea crossings from what is now Southeast Asia. [5] The Aboriginal people spread throughout the continent, adapting to diverse environments and climate change to develop one of the oldest continuous ...
In high school, she traveled by bus to demonstrations in Sacramento, Portland, Ore., and other places. She grew accustomed to hearing some say their calls for dam removal would never become a reality.
Trade with both Asia and southern tribes was active even before the advent of Europeans. [2] [3] [4] Today, early Alaskans are divided into several main groups: the Southeastern Coastal Native Americans (the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian), the Athabascans, the Aleut, the two groups of Eskimos, and Inupiat and Yup'ik.