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The Brisbane River was named first. It was discovered in 1823 by three ticket-of-leave convicts, and named by John Oxley, after the NSW Governor at the time, Sir Thomas Brisbane. The city took on the name as it developed on the banks of the river within two years, replacing the "Moreton Bay colony" title with which it started out.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoBrisbane was named after the Brisbane River, which was named after Governor Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Governor of the NSW colony at the time when John Oxley explored what is now southeast Queensland.
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∙ 11y agoBrisbane, capital of Queensland, was named in 1824. The city of Brisbane was named after the Brisbane River, which John Oxley named after Sir Thomas Brisbane. He was the Governor of New South Wales at the time when Brisbane was founded, and visited the new colony in what is now Queensland in December 1824.
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