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The Brisbane River runs through Brisbane. The river was actually named before the city which was, in turn, named after the river.

The Brisbane River 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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