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He believed that the settlement was a place to punish the convicts, forcing them to work by hand from sunrise to sunset. [4] In 1827 the Attorney General noted that Logan had in multiple situations ordered that convicts be subject to 150 lashes, [ 8 ] justifying the extreme criticism bestowed on him in the contemporary ballad Moreton Bay .
Sunset State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at Abel Smith Parade (8] [9] In 2016, the school had an enrolment of 253 students (of whom 195 identify as Indigenous) with 24 teachers (23 full-time equivalent) and 19 non-teaching staff (14 full-time equivalent). [10]
Prominent writers from Brisbane include David Malouf (whose 1975 novel Johnno is set in Brisbane and at Brisbane Grammar School during World War II), Nick Earls (whose 1996 novel Zigzag Street is set at Zigzag Street in Red Hill), and Li Cunxin, author of Mao's Last Dancer and artistic director of the Queensland Ballet. Brisbane is a 2018 novel ...
Sunrise in Brisbane Water National Park, Australia A daytime sky with white clouds. Daytime or day as observed on Earth is the period of the day during which a given location experiences natural illumination from direct sunlight. Daytime occurs when the Sun appears above the local horizon, that is, anywhere on the globe's hemisphere facing the ...
On the morning of 20 March 2006, when Sunrise was normally on a one-hour delay in Queensland, the program was broadcast live in order to provide immediate and up-to-date information on Tropical Cyclone Larry to local residents. The show continued to be broadcast until 10am Sydney time only in to Queensland to continue these updates and prevent ...
The above relation implies that on the same day, the lengths of daytime from sunrise to sunset at and sum to 24 hours if =, and this also applies to regions where polar days and polar nights occur. This further suggests that the global average of length of daytime on any given day is 12 hours without considering the effect of atmospheric ...
Sharpe, Peter R. (Peter Robert) (2009), Up rose an emu : the development of Noosa's Peregian Beach, Marcus Beach, Sunrise Beach : a book of recollections, Peter Sharpe, ISBN 978-0-646-50831-3 v t
Sun path, sometimes also called day arc, refers to the daily (sunrise to sunset) and seasonal arc-like path that the Sun appears to follow across the sky as the Earth rotates and orbits the Sun. The Sun's path affects the length of daytime experienced and amount of daylight received along a certain latitude during a given season.