924 km
They are both far.
922.32 km by road.
From Sydney to Brisbane via Armidale is a distance of 969 km. Travel time is around 14 hours, without breaks.
They have one moored at the Sydney maritime museum in Sydney harbour not far from Circular qua station.
Brisbane is actually 934km north of Sydney. However, looking at a map, it is about 180-200km east of Sydney if you drew two vertical lines through each of the cities and measured the gap between.
There is a popular theory that its location had something to do with it. There are even those that claim the fact that it crosses Sydney Harbour caused it to always be referred to it that way. These are however only theories and may seem a bit far fetched to some.
The main road link in Australia is the M1. It is made up of the main highways between capital cities such as the Bruce Highway (far north Queensland to Brisbane), the Pacific Highway from Brisbane to Sydney and the Princes Highway which leads from Sydney to Adelaide.
A fair distance for two experienced drivers, with regular but fairly short breaks, leaving at about 5am and reaching your destination by about 7:30 at night, is about 1000 km. This is the same as Brisbane to Sydney or Brisbane to Orange.
The distance between the Brisbane suburb of Kedron and Coffs Harbour, NSW is 404km. The road trip takes a little over five hours.
No. There is no record of Japanese soldiers landing on Australian soil. Much damage was done with the air bombings of Darwin and Broome. Japanese submarines also entered Sydney Harbour in 1942, and successfully torpedoed the naval depot ship HMAS Kuttabul, killing 19 Australians and 2 British sailors. Their attempts to hit the Sydney Harbour Bridge fell far short of the mark. But there is no indication that any Japanese soldiers ever landed on Australian soil.
The floods that are currently in Queensland in January 2011 are most unlikely to reach Sydney. These floods will move into a different river system.However, Sydney's own current weather pattern could well result in flooding of that city, particularly if a cyclone manages to extend as far south as Brisbane. Heavy rain in the Sydney catchment could easily result in flooding in Sydney.
From Forster, NSW to Brisbane, Qld is a distance of 654 km.