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Brisbane River. The Brisbane River (Turrbal: Maiwar) is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the river, named it after the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane in 1823.
The geography of Brisbane is characterised by its coastal location in the south eastern corner of the Queensland state of Australia. It is located halfway up the Australian east coast with longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of 27.5° south and 153° east. The city resides within the Moreton Bay Floodplain, stretching from Caboolture to ...
The Brisbane River, running through Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is crossed by fifteen major bridges, from the Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges downstream to the Centenary upstream. The river meanders through an urban area that comprises 2,562,000 people. There are two smaller crossings in the west of Brisbane City in the suburb of Mount Crosby ...
Brisbane (/ ˈbrɪzbən / ⓘ BRIZ-bən, [10] Turrbal: Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland [11] and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of over 2.7 million. [1] Brisbane lies at the centre of South East Queensland, an urban agglomeration with a population of approximately 4 million which ...
River name Length Source km miles Australian Capital Territory: Murrumbidgee River 59 37 [2] New South Wales: Murray River: 1,808 1,123 Northern Territory: Victoria River: 510 317 Queensland: Flinders River: 1,004 624 South Australia: Murray River: 700 435 Tasmania: South Esk River: 245 152 Victoria: Goulburn River: 654 406 Western Australia ...
The Story Bridge is a heritage-listed steel cantilever bridge spanning the Brisbane River that carries vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic between the northern and the southern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is the longest cantilever bridge in Australia. [1] The road across the bridge is named Bradfield Highway.
Goodwill Bridge. The Goodwill Bridge is a pedestrian and cyclist bridge which spans the Brisbane River in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The bridge connects the South Bank Parklands in South Brisbane to Gardens Point in the Brisbane CBD. The Goodwill Bridge was opened on 21 October 2001 and takes its name from the Goodwill Games, which were ...
Parts of Yeronga were inundated during Brisbane's 2011 floods. [23] [24]The major flood events of the Brisbane River in 1887, 1890, 1893, 1907 and 1931 [25] are not recorded as causing significant damage to Yeronga (the flood-prone areas of which were not extensively developed at those times), but the 1974 and 2011 floods caused extensive damage to many of the properties adjacent to the river ...