Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Brisbane is a tourist and resort capital of Australia, being central to entertainment, attractions, theme parks, beaches, and tourism. It is one of Australia’s heartbeats of fine dining, sightseeing, holiday, and the cosmopolitan experience. It is also a threshhold to business and industry for Australia. With a population of over 2 million, Brisbane attracts people from all walks of life - from the young party-goer, to the wanderlust tourist, to the conference-goer, and the elite business-person, Brisbane has a little bit of something for every visitor. Brisbane is the capital of Queensland as well as the state’s most populated city. It is the third largest city in Australia. Nestled in the bend of the Brisbane River, 23 kilometers from the mouth of the river as it meets Moreton Bay. Surrounded by the River’s floodplains between the Bay and the Great Dividing Range. The city is very hilly with partial elevations by spurs of the Herbert Taylor Range including the summit of Mount Coot-tha, Enoggera Hill, Mount Gravatt, Toohey Mountain, Mount Petrie, Highgate Hill, Mount Ommaney, Stephens Mountain, and Whites Hill. The River and the City is named after the Governor of New South Wales - “Sir Thomas Brisbane” who presided from 1821 through 1825. The area was first inhabited by the Turrbal and Jagera people who originally migrated to the area through the Torres Strait having called the area first the “Mian-jin” or “place shaped as a spike”. The First “White” exploration, was done by “Matthew Flinders” on July 17, 1799 when he landed at “Woody Point” to which he called “Red Cliff Point” based on the “red colored cliffs” that are visible from the Bay. As the area was settled, Sir Thomas Brisbane the Governor of NSW ordered that a new northern penal settlement to be established which became Queensland’s first settlement at Redcliff under command of Lieutenant Henry Miller, 14 soldiers with wives and children, and 29 convicts. Around 1825 it became abandoned and was relocated to the North Quay in 1825. The original site was called “Edenglassie” then named “Brisbane”. He also instructed for “John Oxley” to conduct a further exploration of Moreton Bay. With Oxley and his expedition exploring deeper down the Brisbane River, they reached Goodna, which is 20 kilometers upstream from the current location of Brisbane’s financial district. By 1838, non-convict European settlement occured here. By 1842 numerous free settlers came into the area and the current location of Brisbane was named the capital of Queensland by 1859. By 1930 Brisbane’s City Hall was completed, the “Shrine of Remembrance” was constructed. During World War II, the Allied Campaign under General Douglas MacArthur setup their headquarters there until they were moved to Hollandia by 1944 with over a million US troops passing through Australia during the war. In 1974 the Brisbane Flood temporarily disabled the city even though it was at this time that Brisbane was seeing its greatest growth spurts as it became a global destination of interstate migration. By 2009, Brisbane was voted the 16th “most livable city in the world”. In 2011, Brisbane was also affected by another major flood even though it was not as high as the 1974 flood but causing just as extensive damage and disruption. Brisbane is in the “Tropical Cyclone risk zone” as it has been the location for several cyclones. Brisbane’s industry is tourism, petroleum refining, stevedoring, paper milling, metalworking, technology, science, and the QR railway. Brisbane is also home to numerous schools and universities such as the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Australian Catholic University, and the Griffith University. Brisbane is a thriving music mecca with live entertainment including popular and classical music as well as numerous choirs. Art has captivated Brisbane as modern art is abundant throughout the city especially in the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. Brisbane is also a mecca for recreation with over 27 km of bicycle pathways, swimming, fishing, boating, rock climbing, and sports.
Originally published at Technogypsie.com Reviews