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98 unusual facts about Queensland


1987–88 Australian region cyclone season

Charlie struck Ayr, Queensland in March 1988, killing one person and leaving $2,300,000 dollars (1988 USD) in damage.

1999 Thalgo Australian Women's Hardcourts – Doubles

The 1999 Thalgo Australian Women's Hardcourts – Doubles was the doubles event of the third edition of the Thalgo Australian Women's Hardcourts; a WTA Tier III tournament held in the Gold Coast.

2002 Thalgo Australian Women's Hardcourts

The 2002 Thalgo Australian Women's Hardcourts was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts on the Gold Coast, Queensland in Australia that was part of Tier III of the 2002 WTA Tour.

2008 City of Ipswich 400

It will be held on the weekend of July 18 to 20 at Queensland Raceway in Ipswich, Queensland.

2008 Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts

It took place in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, from 31 December 2007 through 5 January 2008.

2012 Brisbane International

It was the 4th edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson.

2012 DH-84 Riama crash

Riama was a 1934 vintage de Havilland Dragon, returning to Caboolture from the Norra-Aus Fly-In airshow at Monto when the pilot reported the aircraft was encountering heavy clouds and zero visibility.

2014 Brisbane International

It was the sixth edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson.

31st Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment

In 1940 the battalion, along with the other units of the 11th Brigade—then composed of the 26th, 31st and 51st Battalions—was called up for a short period of training as a compulsory military service scheme as part of Australia's mobilisation during World War II and they went into camp near Bowen.

4MBS

The station first went to air on 1 March 1979 at 10.30am, from a small area rented from the Queensland University of Technology’s Kelvin Grove campus.

Air Queensland

Short distance services operated from Cairns to inland and coastal locations such as Cooktown, Karumba and Normanton.

Andrew Fee

Fee moved over to Kim Bowkett Dance Centre in Coorparoo, Queensland, Australia when he was twelve to further his dance and performance education.

Andrew Gee

He transferred to Brisbane from Beaudesert, Queensland in 1989 and started his representative career for Queensland the following year.

Argyrodendron

Argyrodendron actinophyllum and Argyrodendron trifoliolatum occur in scrubs and rainforests along the east coast of Australia, but Argyrodendron peralatum has a restricted distribution in north Queensland between Tully and Cooktown.

Aspley, Queensland

This shopping centre services the residents of Aspley, as well as surrounding suburbs of Carseldine, Zillmere, Chermside West, Taigum, Bridgeman Downs and Albany Creek.

The expressway would travel along the eastern side of Lutwyche Road to Park Road at Kedron, take a northerly route to Chermside and through the eastern side of Aspley, before heading north-westerly through Carseldine to connect with the Bruce Highway north of Bald Hills.

Austinville

Austinville, Queensland, a suburb of the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

Australian Autobus

Australian Autobus was an Australian bus manufacturer based in Slacks Creek, Brisbane.

B105 FM

The 4BK studio complex, an AM radio facility was located at 16 Campbell Street Bowen Hills.

Banks Creek, Queensland

It is now part of Somerset Region and lies adjacent to the Brisbane River to the west of Lake Manchester.

Barry Tannenbaum

Barry Tannenbaum is a South African businessman who currently is living in Runaway Bay, Queensland.

Bedourie oven

Drovers working on Bedourie Station, in western Queensland, found that the heavy cast iron camp ovens they used for cooking would often break as a result of falling from their pack horses.

Beerwah

Beerwah, Queensland - a small town on the hinterland Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, at the side of the Glass House Mountains National Park

Belmont, Queensland

Belmont Shire was a larger area than Belmont today with parts now included in the suburb of Carindale and other suburbs.

Benjamin Harris Babbidge

His funeral left from his residence in Dauphin Terrace, Highgate Hill and he was buried in Toowong Cemetery.

Bikini barista

In Surfers Paradise, Queensland, gold lamé bikini-clad meter maids stroll up and down the beach feeding coins into parking meters so that beach-goers won't get parking tickets.

Billy Sanders

Billy Sanders regained his Australian crown and won his sixth and last Australian Championship in 1985 at the Pioneer Park Speedway in Ayr in Queensland, where he would reverse the previous years result by defeating Crump, with Queensland's Stan Bear finishing third.

Boss 302 Mustang

As of December 2012 this car has been fully restored to original and is owned by Queensland based collector David Bowden who regularly show's the car at historic events throughout Australia.

Caloundra RSL Cup

Caloundra RSL Cup could refer to several sporting competitions on Australias Sunshine Coast.

Cameron Thompson

Thompson led a proposal to construct a bypass east of the city of Ipswich, known as the Goodna Bypass and connecting Dinmore to the Logan Motorway, in preference to a six-lane upgrade of the Ipswich Motorway.

Caroline Steffen

She moved to Australia and eventually quit her job to focus on triathlon training in Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast.

Chris Price

While he was being resuscitated, he suffered a cardiac arrest and he was taken to the Acute Care Unit at Gold Coast Hospital in Southport.

Citipointe Christian College

Citipointe Christian College, previously known as Christian Outreach College Brisbane (COCB), is a Christian independent day school located in Carindale, Queensland.

Cloudland

Originally called Luna Park, Cloudland Dance Hall was a famous Brisbane entertainment venue located in Bowen Hills.

Conscription in Australia

Such work would have been menial labouring jobs in remote locations such as north and western Queensland, western New South Wales, and northern South Australia.

Coolangatta Mountain

It is named after an early settlement on the banks of the Shoalhaven known as Coolangatta and is only indirectly related to the better-known Coolangatta, Queensland.

Coombabah Lake

Coombabah Lake is located in the suburb of Coombabah, five km from the coast and eight km North West of Southport on the Gold Coast of South East Queensland, Australia.

Coral Sea

Queensland has several major urban centres on the coast including Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Sunshine Coast and the industrial city of Gladstone, which inevitably contaminate the sea.

Cornubia

Cornubia, Queensland, a southern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Crossing the Ditch

He took 63 days 7 hours to row his Yorkshire Dory row-boat from Hokianga, New Zealand to Marcus Beach on the Sunshine Coast of Australia.

Cymbiolacca pulchra wisemani

This species occurs in shallow water on top of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia from at least as far north as Saint Crispins Reef Reef east of Cape Tribulation to at least as far south as Stanley Reef north east of Bowen.

Dariusz Trafas

His personal best was 87.17 metres, achieved in September 2000 in Runaway Bay.

Electoral district of Albert

Its present boundaries, as at the 2009 election, take in mostly urban, semi-urban and industrial areas west of the Pacific Motorway extending from Mount Warren Park and Windaroo in southern Logan to Coomera and Oxenford in the outer northern Gold Coast.

Electoral district of Kedron

Both districts were based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Kedron.

Electoral district of Logan

In 1991 the eastern half of the Logan electorate was lost to the Electoral district of Waterford and the Electoral district of Woodridge, leaving the Logan electorate located in the suburbs of Boronia Heights, Browns Plains, Marsden and Park Ridge.

Electoral district of Mermaid Beach

A compact urban, coastal electorate, Mermaid Beach includes the Gold Coast suburbs of Mermaid Beach, Mermaid Waters, Broadbeach Waters, Merrimac, Florida Keys, Miami Keys and parts of Robina.

Emma Harrison

Emma Harrison currently resides in Los Angeles and Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia.

Extension bell

An early Australian system at Mount Crosby, Queensland featured an extension bell which was connected to an engineer's telephone over a distance of a quarter mile.

Geoff Grover

Geoffrey David "Geoff" Grover (born 19 September 1943), is a business and marketing expert, currently working in real estate on the Queensland Sunshine Coast.

A licensed real estate agent, he works from Mount Coolum, in Queensland.

German attacks on Nauru

The released prisoners were embarked onto the steamer Nellore on 29 December to be transported to Townsville in Queensland, where they arrived on 1 January 1941.

Greg Ritchie

Gregory Michael Ritchie (born 23 January 1960, Stanthorpe, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 30 Tests and 44 ODIs from 1982 to 1987.

Hays Inlet

The slender inlet forms the shape of the south-western Redcliffe suburb of Clontarf, and eastern Pine Rivers suburbs of Mango Hill and Griffin.

HMAS Ipswich

Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Ipswich, for the city of Ipswich, Queensland.

HMQS Gayundah

Gayundah was beached on 2 June 1958, and now serves as a breakwater off the Woody Point cliffs near Redcliffe.

Indigenous Australians and crime

The issue resurfaced in 2004 when an Indigenous man, Mulrunji Doomadgee, died in custody in Palm Island, Queensland, an incident that caused riots on the island.

Indigenous intellectual property

:This declaration arose out of a meeting of indigenous and non-indigenous specialists, who, at Jingarrba, in north-eastern Australia, agreed indigenous intellectual property rights are best determined from within the customary laws of the indigenous groups' themselves.

Ipswich Hospital

:For the Ipswich Hospital in Australia see Ipswich Hospital, Queensland

James Alpin McPherson

After finishing his schooling, McPherson first started work at a stoneyard on the corner of Wharf and Queen streets in Ipswich, owned by a Mr. Petrie, before finding work on a cattle station.

Johannes Christian Brunnich

In 1887 Brünnich became chief chemist and mill manager for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company at Homebush, near Mackay.

John Appel

In 1889 Appel quit the practice of law for good and moved to a farm in Nerang, at Glencoe, where he both farmed and operated a dairy.

Joseph Hodel

Joseph Hodel (1850-1945) was a businessman and politician in Queensland, Australia.

Jupiters Hotel and Casino

Jupiters Hotel and Casino is a casino and hotel located in the suburb of Broadbeach on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

Kalkadoon Grasswren

The specific epithet ballarae refers to the deserted mining town of Ballara, in north-western Queensland between Mount Isa and Cloncurry.

Kate Morton

Kate Morton is married to Davin, a jazz musician and composer, and they have two sons; they live in the Brisbane suburb of Paddington.

Kathleen Gorham

She retired from dancing after the Australian Ballet's first overseas tour in 1966, and then taught ballet in Melbourne and Southport, Queensland until her death.

Kings Beach, California

:For the suburb & beach in Queensland, Australia, see Kings Beach, Queensland.

Kuraby, Queensland

Kuraby is serviced by a fast electric train service to Brisbane city and the Gold Coast, whilst a bus service takes commuters to the large shopping centres of Upper Mount Gravatt and Springwood.

Mabel Forrest

Forrest was born near Yandilla, Queensland (now part of Toowoomba Region), the daughter of James Checkley Mills and his wife Margaret Nelson, née Haxell.

Machinery of government

In Queensland, the Premier has sole responsibility for determining ministerial portfolios.

Malcolm McColm

Born in Cardiff, Wales, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated at Scotch College, Warwick, Queensland.

Marsden State High School

Marsden State High School is located on Muchow Road between the suburbs of Marsden and Waterford West.

Maurie Fowler

He then returned to the Goulburn Valley Football League, playing one season with Mooroopna and one season with Kyabram, before accepting the position as playing coach of the Palm Beach Currumbin Football Club on the Queensland Gold Coast in 1970.

Merivale Bridge

It formed a more direct route into the city for Brisbane's southern system suburban trains than the existing route via Corinda.

Morningside Australian Football Club

Morningside Australian Football Club, also known as Morningside AFC or the Panthers, is an Australian Rules football club based at Jack Esplen Oval in the suburb of Hawthorne in Brisbane.

NRN

NRTV's Gold Coast studios and offices were constructed in Ashmore on Southport Nerang Road.

Orthodox Church in America Parishes in Australia

The Orthodox Church in America Parishes in Australia refers to an administrative district of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) located within two states in AustraliaNew South Wales and Queensland.

Padua College, Brisbane

At the request of Sister Mary Bernadette O’Callaghan OSF, the Friars, who had taken charge of the Kedron parish since 1929, agreed to begin a separate school for boys.

Queensland Fire and Rescue Service

Location:Kedron, Queensland, Australia

Queensland Railways 1300 class

The 1300 class were a class of diesel locomotive built by English Electric, Rocklea for Queensland Rail between 1967 and 1972.

Scott Robinson and Charlene Mitchell

It turns out that Charlene is Madge's daughter, who has just arrived from Queensland and the two have not seen each other in several years.

Seair Pacific

In December 1990, Peter Gash and Julie Gash took ownership of the company, starting with one Cessna 206 and a seaplane base at Runaway Bay, Queensland.

Sean Rothsey

He was a member of the Community Rating Reference Working Group for Noosa Shire Council in 2007, and a founding member of the Lake MacDonald Catchment Coordinating Committee for Noosa Shire.

Sherwood railway station, Brisbane

Sherwood (formerly Oxley West) is a railway station located in the Brisbane suburb of Sherwood, Queensland, Australia, on the Ipswich and Rosewood and Springfield lines.

Shire of Sherwood

The Shire of Sherwood is a former local government area of Queensland, Australia, located in south-western Brisbane in and around the suburb of Sherwood.

Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove

The taxonomy of the Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove is disputed, and some authorities split it into two species: M. amboinensis (Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove) of eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and M. phasianella (Brown Cuckoo-Dove) of eastern Australia from Weipa and Aurukun in the north to Bega in the south, and most inland at Atherton and Toowoomba.

South Australian wine

Located in south central Australia, South Australia is bordered by the four other mainland states, (Western Australia to the west, Queensland to the north east, New South Wales to the east, Victoria to the south east), the Northern Territory to the north, and the Great Australian Bight forms the region's southern coastline.

Spring Bluff, Queensland

Due to the floods at nearby Murphys Creek in early 2011, the station is closed for repairs.

Sunnybank

Sunnybank, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia much reduced in size from the previous suburb of Sunnybank

The Bush Soldiers

The invasion of Australia begins on 12 June 1942, with the Japanese landing at Darwin, Cooktown and Cairns.

The Kokoda Challenge

Starting in the Gold Coast Hinterland suburb of Mudgeeraba, the track follows selected fire trails and paths through Austinville, Springbrook, Numinbah Valley, Beechmont and Clagiraba to the finish line at the Nerang Velodrome.

The Mouldy Lovers

The Mouldy Lovers began in early 2010 in the Brisbane suburb of West End as a folk trio, composed of Louis Whelan, Jade Channells and Matt Hsu, regularly performing at markets and venues.

The Westlander

The Westlander is an Australian passenger train operated by Queensland Rail on the Main and Western lines between Brisbane and the outback town of Charleville.

Undue Subdivision of Land Prevention Act 1885

Nor was Brisbane spared the horror of slum development - suburbs such as West End and Red Hill were long known for their general poverty and low socio-economic status, even if they weren't as overcrowded as similarly impoverished districts in Sydney and Melbourne.

UQ Lakes busway station

The UQ Lakes Bus Station, at UQ's St Lucia Campus, is serviced by TransLink bus routes.

Violent Soho

Violent Soho is an Australian band from the Brisbane suburb of Mansfield, Queensland, formed in 2004.

Westfield Carindale

Westfield Carindale is a shopping centre located in the suburb of Carindale, east of Brisbane.

Wests Panthers

In 1974, the club moved wholly to its training premises on Mount Coot-tha, naming their new home Purtell Park after club stalwart Tom Purtell.


2008 Gold Coast Titans season

Round 7: Brenton Bowen made his debut for the club, after previously playing for the North Queensland Cowboys.

2011 Brisbane International

The 2011 Brisbane International was a joint ATP and WTA tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland.

Acacia argyrodendron

Acacia argyrodendron is found in central Queensland in the basins of the Cape, Suttor and Belyando Rivers on clay soils in areas where the annual rainfall ranges between 475 and 655 mm (19-26 in).

Anne Boyd

Her father died when she was age 3, and her mother sent her to live with relatives on a sheep station (Maneroo) near Longreach, in central Queensland.

Arthur Edward Moore

The younger Moore arrived in Queensland in 1898, where he was a dairy farmer on the Darling Downs and the owner of two cheese factories.

Auskick

The AFL has used the Auskick program the introduce Australian rules football into schools and communities around the country to increase the AFL's profile in areas that traditionally support other football codes such as New South Wales and Queensland.

Australian bull ray

It is found in the southern waters of Australia from Jurien Bay, Western Australia, around the southern coast and Tasmania and up the east coast as far as Moreton Bay, south Queensland.

Australian Plague Locust Commission

With 19 staff members at its headquarters in Canberra and field offices in Narromine, Broken Hill and Longreach, the Commission is funded half by the Commonwealth government and half by the Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.

Ballet Theatre of Queensland

Ballet Theatre of Queensland, founded in 1937 by Phyllis Danaher MBE FRAD, is the oldest continuous dance company in Australia.

Canarium acutifolium

Canarium acutifolium is a forest tree species, of the plant family Burseraceae, growing naturally in New Guinea, the Moluccas, Sulawesi, New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville and in lowland north-eastern Queensland, Australia.

Cape York

Cape York Peninsula, a large peninsula located in Queensland, Australia

Cardwell Bush Telegraph

A message can be sent by Morse code and an interactive display demonstrates Cardwell's role in the telegraph line race between Queensland and South Australia.

Carrara Indoor Stadium

Carrara Indoor Stadium is a multi-purpose arena located at Carrara on Queenslands Gold Coast and can accommodate 1,600 fans, with additional seating provided if required which can push total capacity for events such as basketball up to 2,962.

Charles Crombie

Crombie was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 16 March 1914 to David William Alexander Crombie, a grazing farmer, and his Indian-born British wife Phoebe Janet (née Arbuthnot), the daughter of Lieutenant General Sir Charles Arbuthnot.

City of Darebin

He left the City of Darebin to take up the role of Chief Executive Officer at the Shire of Maroochy in Queensland.

Dainty green tree frog

It ranges from northern Cape York in Queensland to Gosford in New South Wales, with a small and most likely introduced population in Hornsby Heights in Sydney.

Drawn from Bees

In October 2009, Drawn from Bees released their third record, The Sky is Falling, an EP containing a series of vignettes revolving around a central theme of the sky falling down, touring throughout Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

Fitzgerald Report

Fitzgerald Report or Fitzgerald Inquiry, a 1989 inquiry into police misconduct in Queensland

Fraser Commando School

The FCS was located on Fraser Island in Southeast Queensland, near to the McKenzies Jetty, just south of what is now the Kingfisher Bay Resort.

Garlali language

Breen pointed out that some groups in southwest Queensland had abandoned their original languages (but not their names) and adopted the ‘Wilson River Language’ in the early days of Australian settlement when people moved from Thargomindah to Nockatunga (near the modern town of Noccundra).

Gordon Nuttall

In 2006 the CMC also began an investigation into a series of loans Nuttall received from Queensland mining magnate Ken Talbot.

Illingworth St Mary's Cricket Club

Over the years many famous players have played for and at Illingworth; Tom Emmett (England), Alex Lees (Yorkshire), Gary Fellows (Yorkshire), Stuart Law (Essex, Queensland, Lancashire & Australia) and Robin Uthappa (India).

Jeff Gilberthorpe

A reaction to being stuck for hours behind a semi-trailer carrying a house up Tamborine Mountain in Queensland, this tale of a traditional "Queenslander" style house lifted out of the way of a deadly flood by its owner's judicious use of hot-air balloons led to a sequence of pictures detailing the flying house's journey over notable Australian landmarks, both natural and manmade, and illustrate the book Icon Collection.

John Bellenden Ker Gawler

The state of Queensland in Australia has named its second highest peak Mount Bellenden Ker - it is also the wettest known locality in Australia.

Matthew Pascoe

Matthew David Pascoe (born 10 January 1977 in Camperdown, New South Wales, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer who has played for Tasmania and Queensland.

Music of Brisbane

Brisbane is a city in Queensland, Australia, home to many regionally important music institutions and venues.

New Zealand Legislative Council

To assist its passage into law, Holland appointed twenty members known as the "suicide squad", to vote for abolition, just as the Australian state of Queensland had done to abolish its upper house in 1922.

Nick Kruger

Nicholas James Kruger (born 14 August 1983, Paddington, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer who has played First-class cricket for Queensland and List A cricket for Tasmania.

Peter Menegazzo

Partner in the Nebo Consortium (with Jack Cowin, founder of Hungry Jack's, and Queensland grazier Peter Hughes), Menegazzo became one of Australia's largest landholders, and the third-biggest cattle owner, with the $417.5 million plus debt sale, gaining 115,000 square kilometres and a herd of half a million cattle.

Popular Theatre Troupe

Their first production was Star Trick, a satire lampooning the Star Trek television series focussing on the absurdity of local Queensland politics interspersed with ironically sung old popular songs.

Port Lihou Island

The Zenobia entered Endeavour Strait in January 1823, and discovered a shallow port on the south coast of Prince of Wales Island, subsequently named Port Lihou.

QRL

Queensland Rugby League, the governing body of rugby league football in the Australian state of Queensland

Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

In July 2002, Sydney-based company Architectus was commissioned by the Queensland Government following an Architect Selection Competition, to design the Gallery's second site, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA).

R v Carroll

In October 1983 Carroll was interviewed by the police in relation to the murder of Deidre, a baby whose body had been found on the roof of a toilet block in Ipswich, Queensland, in April 1973.

Robert Logan Jack

An early piece of work was an examination of the coal resources of the Cooktown district, and in August 1879 he began an exploring expedition to the most northerly part of Queensland in the hope that payable goldfields might be found.

Robert Stable

He has also held adjunct professor positions at the University of Queensland since 1997, and James Cook University since 2001.

Scott Alderdice

Scott Alderdice is a Shakespearean director, media producer and acting lecturer currently based at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.

Sione

Sione Faumuina, a rugby league player for the North Queensland Cowboys

Stadium Mackay

Stadium Mackay, currently known as its sponsored name Virgin Australia Stadium, is a rectangular football stadium situated in Mackay, Queensland, Australia.

Stout whiting

Like most smelt-whitings, the stout whiting is a schooling species, occasionally associating with S. vitttata, S. burrus and S. bassensis in southern Western Australia and with S. flindersi in southern Queensland.

Thea Astley

She tutored at Macquarie University from 1968 to 1980, before retiring to write full-time, at which time she and her husband moved to Kuranda in North Queensland.

Warren Boland

He now presents weekend radio shows called "Weekends with Warren" on ABC Local Radio stations across Queensland, Australia, broadcasting from the studios of 612 ABC Brisbane.

West Coast Range

The rainfall records of Lake Margaret were on a par with Tully in Queensland for the highest rainfall in Australia.

Wizard Cup

Queensland Cup, a rugby league football competition formerly known as the Queensland Wizard Cup

Yasi

2011's Cyclone Yasi - Caused significant damage to Queensland, Australia in 2011