Moreton Island is located on the eastern side of Moreton Bay, on the coast of south-east Queensland, Australia. The island lies 58 km northeast of the Queensland capital, Brisbane.

Transportation of convicts was terminated.

No. The Brisbane River is entirely within Queensland, and empties into Moreton Bay in southeast Queensland.

Queensland was always the state's name from the time it separated from NSW in 1859. Prior to that, it was originally known as the Moreton Bay Colony, and Brisbane, but of course, this extended far beyond Moreton Bay. It was just all part of New South Wales.

E. R. Wyeth has written:

'Education in Queensland : a history of education in Queensland and in the Moreton Bay District of New South Wales. --'