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The city of Brisbane was named after the Brisbane River, which John Oxley was directed to by some ticket-of-leave convicts who had found a good river. Oxley came into contact with these men who had become lost, and they showed him the river. Oxley named the river after Sir Thomas Brisbane, who was the Governor of New South Wales at the time when Brisbane was founded. The city of Brisbane was then named after the river when the first settlement was founded on its banks.

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