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The southern boundary of the short-lived Colony of North Australia, 1846–1847, was further north than the later boundary of Queensland. The loss of the American Colonies due to the American War of Independence (1775–1783) forced the British Government to find another place to send its convicted felons.
Queensland had been divided into 109 counties in the nineteenth century, before the Land Act of 1897 subdivided many of these counties to 319. Some of the eastern counties remained the same, with most of the subdivisions occurring in the west and north. The current counties were named and bounded by the Governor in Council on 7 March 1901. [3] [4]
Other names for regions are in popular usage, for example by different government agencies and in various regional maps of Queensland. The state also contains smaller regions within those discussed above which are not necessarily used for statistical purposes, but which are distinct in terms of their geography, economy or demographic ...
Main article: Local government areas of Queensland Local government areas (municipalities, shires and divisions) in Queensland, March 1902 The local government areas (LGAs) of Queensland, Australia are the defined areas within which legally constituted local government authorities, known as councils, have responsibilities to provide local services. Determining the size and shape of the local ...
Queensland Globe is the interactive mapping service provided by the Queensland Government in Australia. It is the most up-to-date and authoritative source on Queensland geography. It has hundreds of different layers enabling different aspects of Queensland geography to be simultaneously displayed (e.g. boundaries of suburbs, rivers, mountain ...
Central Queensland: 1986 391: 1,041 1,060 Shire of Burdekin: Ayr: North Queensland: 1888 5,044: 16,842 16,890 Charters Towers Region: Charters Towers: North Queensland: 2008 68,382: 11,923 12,004 The Charters Towers Region was created from the 15 March 2008 amalgamation of: the City of Charters Towers; the Shire of Dalrymple; Shire of ...
A unit of real estate or immovable property is limited by a legal boundary (sometimes also referred to as a property line, lot line or bounds). The boundary (in Latin: limes ) may appear as a discontinuation in the terrain: a ditch, a bank, a hedge, a wall, or similar, but essentially, a legal boundary is a conceptual entity, a social construct ...
Queensland's capital city, Brisbane is located in the most populous region South East Queensland. Also located here is the Gold Coast , Ipswich , Logan , Redcliffe City and Toowoomba the second largest inland city in Australia is located 120 km west of Brisbane on the Darling Downs as well as Warwick .