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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 suburb was named after a native from the Loyalty Islands (near modern-day New Caledonia) who was transported in the late nineteenth century to Queensland. [3] Such people, called Kanakas, were a cheap source of labour for sugarcane production. Apparently Tarragindi Tasserone escaped and was subsequently employed by Alfred Foote of Ipswich ...
Maiwar consists of the suburbs of Mount Coot-tha, Bardon, Auchenflower, Toowong, Taringa, Indooroopilly, St Lucia and Fig Tree Pocket. [3] At its creation, Maiwar was estimated to be a marginal seat for the Liberal National Party with a margin of 3.0%. [4] The seat was won by Michael Berkman of the Queensland Greens in the 2017 Queensland state ...
Indooroopilly has significant commercial, office and retail sectors and is home to Indooroopilly Shopping Centre, the largest shopping centre in Brisbane's western suburbs. The suburb is popular with professionals and a large number of university students from the nearby University of Queensland campus in St Lucia. The housing stock consists of ...
The Centenary Suburbs are a group of suburbs in the south-west in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.The suburbs originated as an "ambitious long-term suburban development proposal that included a number of neighbourhoods, or suburbs, each with sufficient services and facilities for its residents to have their day-to-day needs met without having to go elsewhere".
Nudgee is 17.6 kilometres (11 mi) north-west by road of the Brisbane CBD.. The suburb is bounded to the north-east by the Gateway Motorway, including Nudgee Golf Club down to Kedron Brook) which forms the south-east boundary, then along Gateway Motorway, including Nudgee Waterhole Reserve and roughly following Farnshaw Road and Red Hill Road to the south, and then roughly following the ...
Chelmer is 9.8 kilometres (6.1 mi) by road from Brisbane GPO. [2] Chelmer is zoned as a residential area, and consists of low-density housing. It has many fine Queenslanders, characterised by wooden verandahs, wide stairways and roofing of galvanized iron, but in recent years solid brick homes have been built also.
Jindalee is 15.2 km (9 mi) by road south-west of the Brisbane CBD, and is a part of the Centenary suburbs.It is bordered by the Brisbane River to the north.. The Centenary Motorway enters the suburb from the north (Kenmore), crossing the river on the Centenary Bridge), and forms the south-eastern boundary of the suburb before exiting on the south-east corner of the suburb into Mount Ommaney ...