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4 unusual facts about South East Queensland


Cherry Venture

It ran aground on Teewah Beach in South East Queensland, Australia on 6 July 1973 and remained on the beach for 34 years until its removal in early 2007.

Daylight Saving for South East Queensland Referendum Act 2010

In early 2010, the Daylight Saving for South East Queensland (DS4SEQ) political party approached Wellington to introduce a private member's bill.

Greater Brisbane League 2008–09

The Greater Brisbane League 2008–09 season is annual summer baseball competition of South East Queensland run by Baseball Queensland.

Rawnsley's Bowerbird

The specimen disappeared prior to 1950 and a second example was not recorded until sightings and photographic evidence of another bird were obtained in November 2003 and January 2004 at Beechmont, South East Queensland, adjacent to the Lamington National Park.


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.

Fairholme College

Fairholme College is an independent, day and boarding school for girls, located in Toowoomba, one of Australia's largest provincial cities, in South East Queensland, Australia.

Redcliffe Tigers

Redcliffe Tigers AFC is an Australian Football Club – Aussie Rules Club, that plays its home games out of the Rothwell a suburb of Redcliffe, South East Queensland.

University of Queensland bus station

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

UQ Lakes busway station

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


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5th/7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment

On 24 August 2006 Prime Minister John Howard announced that two new battalions would be established in two stages, with one eventually to be based in Adelaide and the other—8th/9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment—in south-east Queensland.

Acacia melanoxylon

In South-east Queensland it is an important host plant for a number of indigenous butterfly larvae, including Tailed Emperor (Polyura sempronius); Silky Hairstreak (Pseudalmenus chlorinda); Imperial Hairstreak (Jalmenus evagoras evagoras); Stencilled Hairstreak (Jalmenus ictinus) & Large Grass-yellow (Eurema hecabe hecabe).

Benowa, Queensland

The Surfers Paradise Australian Football Club are based at Sir Bruce Small Park and compete in the South East Queensland Australian Football League Division 1.

Daylight Saving for South East Queensland Referendum Act 2010

The Daylight Saving for South East Queensland Referendum Bill 2010 was tabled in the Queensland Parliament on 14 April 2010, by Independent Member Peter Wellington.

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.

Inskip Point

Inskip Point is a peninsula to the north of the town of Rainbow Beach in south-east Queensland, Australia.

Jacaranda

Jacarandas in bloom have become closely associated with Ipswich and South East Queensland.

Lawnton

Lawnton, Queensland a suburb of the Pine Rivers Shire of South East Queensland, Australia

Shire of Albert

On 21 November 1991, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its second report, and recommended that local government boundaries in South East Queensland be rationalised with a view to creating stronger local authorities with a single community of interest.

Z Experimental Station

A site on Fraser Island in South East Queensland was selected and all basic Special Operations training had been transferred to the Fraser Commando School by October 1943.