Brisbane is closer to Cairns.
Melbourne is closer to Sydney than Brisbane is.
Melbourne is closer to Adelaide than Sydney is.
Brisbane is roughly 1700km south of Cairns.
6 - Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Cairns
The journey from Brisbane to Cairns on the Sunlander takes 31 hours to cover a distance of 1691 kilometres. The journey from Brisbane to Cairns on the Tilt Train takes 23 hours, 55 minutes.
You cannot travel from Cairns to Darwin on the Ghan. You would have to travel from Cairns down to Brisbane, where you would then need to take another train to Sydney. At Sydney you could catch a train to Adelaide, and only at Adelaide could you catch the Ghan to Darwin. Total travel would be about five days.
No. Brisbane is north of Sydney
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The air distance from Brisbane, Australia, to Cairns, Australia, is 863 miles. That equals 1,389 kilometers or 750 nautical miles.
Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane are in the continent (and nation) of Australia.
The half way point when driving from Brisbane to Sydney, Brisbane is Armidale, Australia.