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Location:
Oceania,
Australia, Brisbane
Category:
City cam
Description:
View of Brisbane city from South
Bank Parklands. You can see the
buildings in the CBD, the floating
traffic on the Brisbane River
Location Information:
Brisbane is the capital of the
Australian state of Queensland and
is the largest city in that state.
The statistical division of Brisbane
has a population estimated at 2
million by the Australian Bureau of
Statistics, and with its LGA
registering a bit over a million, it
is the third most populous city in
Australia
The city is situated on the Brisbane
River on a low-lying floodplain
between Moreton Bay and the Great
Dividing Range in southeastern
Queensland. The local indigenous
people knew the area as Mian-jin,
meaning 'place shaped as a
spike'.[6] Brisbane is named after
the river on which it sits which, in
turn, was named after Sir Thomas
Brisbane, the Governor of New South
Wales from 1821 to 1825. Brisbane's
demonym is a Brisbanite. The first
European settlement in Queensland
was a penal colony at Redcliffe, 28
kilometres (17 mi) north of the
Brisbane central business district,
in 1824. That settlement was soon
abandoned and moved to North Quay in
1825. Free settlers were permitted
from 1842. Brisbane was chosen as
the capital when Queensland was
proclaimed a separate colony from
New South Wales in 1859. Brisbane
also borders the Moreton Bay,
Ipswich, Somerset, Logan and the
Redland Areas.
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