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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.
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.
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 ...
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%.
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.He is best remembered for his work mapping the various tribal groupings of Aboriginal Australians at the time of European settlement, shown in his map published in 1940.
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.
Baker's map of 1846 shows the relative positions of the pioneer families of the Somerset region around the Stanley and Brisbane Rivers. Cressbrook is the only property still managed by the pioneering McConnel family, and both the homestead and its Victoria chapel designed by Robin Dods are now on the Queensland Heritage Register .
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 ...