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Queensland's first railway linked Grandchester to Ipswich, 1865. South East Queensland was home to around 20,000 Aboriginals prior to British occupation. The local tribes of the area were the Yugarapul of the Central Brisbane area; the Yugambeh people whose traditional lands ranged from South of the Logan River, down to the Tweed River and west to the McPherson Ranges; the Quandamooka people ...
Border Rivers – an area near the border of New South Wales and Queensland. Capricorn Coast – a section of the Central Queensland coastline near the Tropic of Capricorn. Maranoa – a district that is sometimes referred to as the Western Darling Downs, in South West Queensland. The Marlin Coast – a coastal area centred on Cairns.
Map of South East Queensland localities and suburbs. Brisbane is part of the South-East Queensland region. Brisbane's metropolitan area is broadly and colloquially divided into the 'northside' and the 'southside', with the dividing line being the Brisbane River , [ 14 ] as crossing one of the fifteen bridges across the river is required to ...
Main Range including Cunninghams Gap viewed from Rosevale, 2015. The park extends from Kangaroo Mountain, near Frazerview, south to Wilsons Peak on the New South Wales border [3] and includes Mount Superbus (1,375 m), South East Queensland’s highest peak.
The range marks the southern extent of the Scenic Rim. The Bar Mountain massif is the highest point on the range, rising to 1,130 m (3,710 ft) above sea level. [1] To the west lies McPherson Range and Levers Plateau, in the north is the Lamington Plateau with the Nightcap Range extending around the southern parts of the caldera rim, south east of the Tweed Range.
The City of Moreton Bay, known until July 2023 as the Moreton Bay Region, is a local government area in the north of the Brisbane metropolitan city in South East Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it replaced three established local government areas, the City of Redcliffe and the Shires of Pine Rivers and Caboolture .
The Somerset region in South East Queensland was originally settled by European pastoralists in the 1840s after the New South Wales Government had opened up the land around the penal colony at Moreton Bay. The pioneers of this region sought land along the Brisbane and Stanley Rivers for raising sheep. There were several exploration maps to ...
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.