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Brisbane suburb names with Aboriginal names show that some Australian Aboriginal languages are still preserved today, in the form of placenames. Similarly, F. J. Watson explains the meanings of Queensland suburb names. [1] The map demonstrates a non-exhaustive list of some of the names in the Brisbane area.
Aboriginal names of suburbs of Brisbane, derived from the Turrbal language. Place names in Australia have names originating in the Australian Aboriginal languages for three main reasons: [citation needed] Historically, European explorers and surveyors may have asked local Aboriginal people the name of a place, and named it accordingly.
Nundah (previously called German Station) is an inner suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [4] It contains the neighbourhood of Toombul.In the 2021 census, Nundah had a population of 13,098 people.
The Jagera Aboriginal people occupied most of the land south of the Brisbane River; Runcorn would have been in the territory of the Chepara clan of Eight Mile Plains, Queensland. [citation needed] Originally a part of Coopers Plains, the area was designated the Brisbane Agricultural Reserve (later the Eight Mile Plains Agricultural Reserve ...
The suburb has traditionally been home to Brisbane's largest Greek Australian community, with an estimated 75% of Brisbane's Greek population living in West End by 1980. [53] The most common ancestries in West End are English 20.6%, Australian 16.8%, Irish 10.1%, Scottish 8.0% and Greek 5.2%.
Satellite image of the Brisbane Metropolitan Area. Centred on the City of Brisbane, it captures from the Redcliffe Peninsula in the north, D'Aguilar National Park to the west, east to Moreton and Stradbroke Islands, and Logan City in the south. Brisbane Central Business District seen from Mount Coot-tha Lookout This is a list of the almost 450 suburbs in the Brisbane metropolis, Queensland ...
The Kedron Brook bikeway follows the brook on the suburb's north-east boundary with two bridges over the creek to Shaw Park in Wavell Heights) and to Toombul Terrace in Nundah There is a third bridge over the creek ( 27°24′16″S 153°03′03″E / 27.4045°S 153.0508°E / -27.4045; 153.0508 ( Foot bridge to Carew & New ...
The Redcliffe Peninsula is a peninsula located in the City of Moreton Bay in the northeast of the Brisbane metropolitan area in Queensland, Australia.The area covers the suburbs of Clontarf, Kippa-Ring, Margate, Moreton Island, Newport, Redcliffe, Rothwell, Scarborough and Woody Point.