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The South Pacific air ferry route was initially established in the 1920s to ferry United States Army Air Service aircraft to the Philippines.As the Japanese threat in the Far East increased in 1940, General Douglas MacArthur planned that in the event of war, the United States Army Air Corps would play a major role in defending the Philippines.
In 2010, South East Queensland's population grew by an average of about 1,200 new residents each week. [22] Between 1991 and 2016 the population rose from 1.9 million residents to 3.3 million. [23] South East Queensland is expected to be home to 4.4 million by 2031. [24] A 2010 report concluded that the region will reach 5.5 million people by ...
In 2004 Translink was established to coordinate the integration of the South-East Queensland public transport system which meant they took over the marketing activities of MetroLink Queensland. In 2008 the TransdevTSL Brisbane Ferries brand was established, still within the Translink integrated public transport scheme, when Transfield Services ...
A shelter shed, cattle yards and loading bank were added later. Cattle and timber were major commodities railed through Linville which once boasted the largest rail head in south east Queensland and the second largest in the southern hemisphere. Cattle came from all parts of the South Burnett region to be railed south to markets.
Brisbane is served by several motorways.The Pacific Motorway connects the central city with the Gold Coast to the south. The Ipswich Motorway connects the city with Ipswich to the west via the southern suburbs, while the Western Freeway and the Centenary Motorway provide a connection between Brisbane's inner-west and the outer south-west, connecting with the Ipswich Motorway south of the ...
The ancient maritime routes through the Indo-West Pacific (Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean) had no particular name for the majority of its very long history. [3] Despite the modern name, the Maritime Silk Road involved exchanges in a wide variety of goods over a very wide region, not just silk or Asian exports. [6] [14]
South Eastern Queensland is an interim Australian bioregion located in south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales. [1] It has an area of 7,804,921 hectares (19,286,380 acres). [ 2 ] It is one of the most biodiverse bioregions in Australia.
The Manila galleon trade route was inaugurated in 1565 after the Augustinian friar and navigator Andrés de Urdaneta pioneered the tornaviaje or return route from the Philippines to Mexico. Urdaneta and Alonso de Arellano made the first successful round trips that year, by taking advantage of the Kuroshio Current .