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99 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 Honda Indy 300

The 1999 Honda Indy 300 was the nineteenth and penultimate round of the 1999 CART season, held on 17 October 1999 on the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia.

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.

2006–07 Australian region cyclone season

With the first advice, a cyclone watch was immediately declared for the Queensland coast between Ayr and St Lawrence, and TCWC Brisbane upgraded the low to Tropical Cyclone Odette on 3 March.

2009 Queensland House and Land.com 300

It contained Rounds 15 and 16 of the series and was held on the weekend of August 21 to 23 at Queensland Raceway in Ipswich, Queensland.

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.

Alexander Prokhorov

Prokhorov was born in 1916 in Atherton, Queensland, to a family of Russian revolutionaries who emigrated from Russia to escape repression by the tsarist government.

Andrew Armstrong

His youngest son, Charles Nesbitt Frederick Armstrong (1858–1948), born when his father was 71 or 72, went to Queensland, Australia, and married Helen Porter Mitchell (the opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba) in 1882.

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.

Arung Samudera

On August 23, 2007, the Arung Samudera ran aground off the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia in stormy weather.

Aspley, Queensland

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.

Avocado

; Sharwil: Predominantly Guatemalan, with some Mexican race genes, Sharwil was selected in 1951 by Sir Frank Sharpe at Redland Bay, southern Queensland, Australia.

B105 FM

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

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.

Brisbane Times

Brisbane Times is an online newspaper for Brisbane and Queensland, Australia.

Bulimba Creek

It then flows in a northerly direction through the suburbs of Mansfield, Mackenzie, Carindale, Murarrie and Lytton, before meeting the Brisbane River along the Lytton Reach.

Burdekin Bridge

Despite these setbacks, the new bridge greatly assisted in travel between Ayr, Queensland and Home Hill, Queensland and formed a vital link between North and South Queensland.

Butler Air Transport

After getting a pilot's license, he became a barnstormer before in 1934 winning the contract for the Charleville, Queensland to Cootamundra, New South Wales leg of the England-Australia airmail route.

Caloundra RSL Cup

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

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.

Chinatown, Brisbane

Now, many Chinese-Australian residents including people from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China have started to drift away from Chinatown and settle around the favourable Feng shui Sunnybank area located south of the CBD.

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.

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.

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.

Debbie Bowman-Sullivan

Deborah Ann Bowman-Sullivan (born 4 July 1963) in Southport, Queensland) is an Australian former field hockey defender, who won the gold medal with the Women's National Team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Eight Mile Plains, Queensland

In the 1970s, this southern part of Eight Mile Plains, along with the southern part of Rochedale and Springwood became the new suburb of Underwood.

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 Everton

The division encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's north west between the Kedron Brook and the South Pine River, including Everton Park, Everton Hills, McDowall and Albany Creek.

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.

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.

Giant Malleefowl

It was described from Plio-Pleistocene deposits at the Darling Downs and Chinchilla in south-east Queensland by Charles De Vis, who erected the genus Progura for it.

Gordon Burford

Gordon Burford died on the 12th March, 2010, following a fall at his home in Currumbin Queensland.

Great Oakley, Essex

James Cockle, a surgeon and father of mathematician and first Chief Justice of Queensland Sir James Cockle.

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.

Gregory Shambrook

Shambrook, a centre, was born in Bilinga, Queensland and claimed a total of 2 international rugby caps for Australia.

James Cook University School of Medicine and Dentistry

Students will study the first three to four years on the Cairns Campus, and will spend the final year developing their clinical skills on placements in public and private dental clinics across northern Queensland, including Mackay, Proserpine, Atherton, and Thursday Island.

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.

John Rutherford Gordon

From 1942, he served as the Commanding Officer of the No 3 Initial Training School at Kingaroy, Queensland.

Joseph Hodel

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

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.

King plate

Bilin Bilin - King of Logan and Pimpama was known to roam through the area that is now Logan City, Queensland.

Little is known about his historical identity, although he was a contemporary of Bilin Bilin and Minippi and may have played a significant part in the Indigenous history of the Gold Coast.

Kings Beach, California

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

Lake Eyre basin

It rises in the form of two central Queensland rivers, the Thomson between Longreach and Charters Towers, and the Barcoo in the area around Barcaldine, about 500 kilometres inland from Rockhampton.

Leslie Harrison Dam

The dam forms Tingalpa Reservoir which is situated between the suburbs of Capalaba, Chandler and Burbank in Brisbane, Australia.

Lisa Millar

Millar grew up in the small country town of Kilkivan, before beginning her journalism career in newspapers, wit ha cadet-ship for the The Gympie Times and then Brisbane's afternoon tabloid newspaper, The Sun, until it closed down.

Logan Hospital

Logan Hospital is located at corner Armstrong and Loganlea Roads in Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia.

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.

Martin Gleeson

Much of his early rugby development took place in Australia, where he emigrated with his family at age 10 to live in Queensland, where he played his junior rugby league for the Logan brothers club based in Woodridge, Queensland.

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.

Mike and Michelle Jackson

Michelle Jackson (born Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia) already played guitar; fiddle; and mandolin when she met Mike and quickly added a number of other instruments to her list of skills.

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.

Mount Alvernia College

Mount Alvernia College is an independent Catholic secondary school for girls located in Kedron, Queensland, Australia.

No. 3 Fighter Sector RAAF

In 1942, a new headquarters for No. 3FS was under construction at Wulguru, Queensland, Stuart, Townsville.

No. 322 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron RAAF

In addition to providing support services at RAAF Tindal, it also has responsibilities for the three RAAF bare bases at RAAF Scherger near Weipa, Queensland, RAAF Curtin near Derby, Western Australia and RAAF Learmonth near Exmouth, Western Australia.

No. 93 Squadron RAAF

On 5 March three No. 93 Squadron Beaufighters departed Oakey to escort No. 79 Squadron Spitfires to Morotai.

Noel Pearson

On 11 May 2007, Pearson and Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough launched a new welfare scheme for Pearson's home town of Hope Vale.

North Brisbane

The Parish of North Brisbane, Queensland, a land administration unit covering the Brisbane CBD.

North Pine

North Pine United Soccer Club are an Australian football (soccer) club from Dakabin, a suburb of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.

North Quay, Brisbane

The location has a historical record in Queensland because it was a landing point during the first European exploration of the river in 1823 and later in 1825, the Moreton Bay penal colony at Redcliffe relocated here, establishing the first permanent European settlement in what was to become the state of Queensland.

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

The college, located in the northern suburb of Kedron, draws students from the central, north and west areas of Brisbane.

Queensland Fire and Rescue Service

Location:Kedron, Queensland, Australia

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.

RCH Herston busway station

It is anticipated that the proposed extension to the Northern Busway will adjoin the existing busway here, extending initially to Kedron, then as far as Chermside and potentially to Aspley and Bracken Ridge.

Sandgate Football Club

Sandgate Football Club are an Australian rules club which played its home games in the Brisbane suburb of Taigum.

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.

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.

Southern Highlands Province

As a region rich in energy resources, the Southern Highlands was at the centre of plans to construct a gas pipeline to pump natural gas to Queensland in north Australia.

Spring Bluff, Queensland

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

Steve Constanzo

Steve Costanzo (born January 22, 1988 in Ingham, Queensland) is an Australian professional basketball player who currently plays for the Townsville Heat in the Queensland Basketball League.

Tarkine

From the late 1990s, the area came under increasing national and international scrutiny in a similar vein to the environmental protests surrounding Tasmania's Franklin River and Queensland's Daintree Rainforest.

The Bush Soldiers

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

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.

Thomas Moffatt

He sold the station in 1849 and moved to the town of Drayton.

West Coast Range

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

Westfield Carindale

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

Woodford Bridge

Bruce is currently Pastor of the Church of Christ in Dalby, Queensland, which suffered 5 floods in 3 weeks during December 2010 and January 2011.


1984 Australian Sports Car Championship

Queensland based owner/driver Bap Romano won the series driving his Romano WE84 Cosworth from 1982 champion Chris Clearihan (driving the Kaditcha-Chevrolet that Peter Hopwood used to win the 1983 Championship) and Andrew Roberts driving a self designed Roberts S2 Ford.

1996–97 Australian region cyclone season

Peaking as a Category 4 cyclone, and making landfall as a Category 2, it caused significant damage in the Cairns region which it approached on two occasions.It was the largest cyclone to hit Northern Queensland in 1997.

2008 City of Ipswich 400

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

2008 Gold Coast Titans season

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

Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003

Ban Ban Springs - First place put on Queensland's Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Register

Andrew Dawson

Anderson Dawson (Andrew Dawson, 1863–1910), Australian politician, Premier of Queensland for one week in 1899.

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.

Arnold Wienholt Hodson

Hodson was in Central Queensland 1900 to 1902 and was part of the Queensland Contingent for South Africa in 1902.

Arthur Palmer

Arthur Hunter Palmer (1819–1898), Australian politician and Premier of Queensland

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 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.

Australian Webstream Awards

The inaugural event took place on the 16th of November 2013 at the Metro Arts Theatre in Brisbane, Queensland, in partnership with the Gold Coast Film Festival.

Austrosaurus

The remains were discovered by Mr. H.B. Wade on Clutha Station near Maxwelton in north Queensland in 1932, who alerted the station manager H. Mackillop, who showed his brother who sent them to the Queensland Museum.

Barbara Jefferis Award

The Anatomy of Wings, Karen Foxlee, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, ISBN 978-0-7022-3616-7

Beerwah

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

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.

Cooper Grace Ward Lawyers

By the year 2000, Brisbane was fast growing as an alternative for business from Sydney and Melbourne as major international companies such as Virgin Australia, Boeing Australia, Mincom Limited and Billabong (clothing) set up their head offices 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.

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.

Gordon Nuttall

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

Hadronyche formidabilis

Hadronyche formidabilis, the northern tree funnel-web spider, is a venomous mygalomorph spider found in Queensland and New South Wales.

Harry Frei

In a match that Queensland won, he dismissed Test player Graeme Fowler for single figures in both innings and as well as David Gower twice.

Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival

The Festival is in the regional Queensland city of Gympie, just a two-hour drive north of Brisbane, along the Bruce Highway and a short 45 minutes drive from the beach at Noosa Heads.

Hornibrook Bridge

Hornibrook Bridge was one of three bridges that crossed Bramble Bay, Queensland, Australia.

HyShot

The team continue to work as part of the Australian Hypersonics Initiative, a joint program of The University of Queensland, the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales' Australian Defence Force Academy campus, the governments of Queensland and South Australia and the Australian Defence Department.

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.

Johannes Christian Brunnich

In 1897 he was appointed government agricultural chemist in the new Queensland Department of Agriculture.

Kalkadoon Grasswren

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

Macaduma toxophora

It is found along the eastern coast of Australia from southern Queensland to Victoria.

Matt Granfield

Granfield was educated at Trinity Lutheran College, the University of Queensland and Harvard Business School.

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.

Paul Stevenson

More recently, Stevenson has become politically involved and in the upcoming 2013 Federal Election he will stand as the lead Senate candidate in Queensland for the Australian Democrats.

QRL

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

Ron Withnall

Withnall was born in Townsville, Queensland, but attended school at Canterbury High School in Sydney.

Sandy Cape

Clement Lindley Wragge set up an extensive network of weather stations around Queensland, including one at Sandy Cape.

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.

Sea foam

Between 27 and 28 January 2013, the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, had masses of foam wash up on land from ex-tropical cyclone Oswald.

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.

Tenterfield Oration

The town of Tenterfield suffered from the disunited administration of the States, as it was distant from the New South Wales state capital of Sydney and rather closer to commercial centres across the border in Queensland.

Terry Fearnley

Fearnley also had a frosty relationship with Australian (and Queensland) captain Wally Lewis, with Lewis claiming that Fearnley seemed to confer on team selections with vice-captain Wayne Pearce rather than himself, claiming he had found the pair privately talking over selection of the test team in their hotel room.

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.

Wizard Cup

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