Queensland was settled as a new penal (convict) colony. It was established when explorer John Oxley and Settlement Commandant Lieutenant Miller, together with a crew and 29 convicts, arrived at Redcliffe on 13 September 1824 to start a new penal colony.
Queensland was settled as a new penal (convict) colony when explorer John Oxley and Settlement Commandant Lieutenant Miller, together with a crew and 29 convicts, arrived at Redcliffe on 13 September 1824.
No. This was name it gained when it separated from New South Wales in 1859. Prior to this, the main settled area was known as the Colony of the Moreton Bay District.
Of course. Tully is a town in far north Queensland, and one of the state's wettest towns.
Queensland was settled as a new penal (convict) colony. It was established when explorer John Oxley and Settlement Commandant Lieutenant Miller, together with a crew and 29 convicts, arrived at Redcliffe on 13 September 1824 to start a new penal colony.
Queensland was settled as a new penal (convict) colony when explorer John Oxley and Settlement Commandant Lieutenant Miller, together with a crew and 29 convicts, arrived at Redcliffe on 13 September 1824.
Two of the first places where German immigrants settled in Queensland were in the Jacob's Well-Alberton area, just north of today's Gold Coast, and on the opposite side of the Logan River to that location - what is now southern Redlands.
The Queensland floods started in Queensland
Queensland is translated to "Queensland" in French as there is no native French equivalent for this Australian state.
There is no state known as South Queensland. There is only Queensland.
Queensland is not in a tropic. The Tropic of Capricorn runs through Queensland.
Queensland!
Queensland calisthenics. Links.