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97 unusual facts about Queensland


105th Medium Battery, Royal Australian Artillery

A training camp during March 1931 was conducted at Bellevue Station, near Ipswich.

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.

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.

2008 Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts

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

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.

2010 Brisbane International

The 2010 Brisbane International was a joint ATP and WTA tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland.

2011 Brisbane International

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

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.

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.

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.

Andrew Fee

Fee started dancing at the age of six with Pamela LeRay Toso Dancers in Rochedale, Queensland, Australia.

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

Initially, the land was sold for farming and comprised the land around Cabbage Tree Creek, bordered by what is now Zillmere Road, Roghan Road, Bridgeman Road and the northerly continuation of Kirby Road, covering mostly what is now Aspley, Carseldine and Fitzgibbon.

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.

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.

Banks Creek, Queensland

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

Barr 6

The Barr 6, also called the Barr Six, Barr 06 and more recently the Morrison 6, is an American amateur-built aircraft that was initially produced by Barr Aircraft of Williamsport, Pennsylvania and now by Morrison Aircraft of Nambour, Queensland, Australia.

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.

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.

Black Stump

The town of Blackall, Queensland makes the following claim to the origin of the expression.

Caloundra RSL Cup

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

Caroline Steffen

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

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.

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.

Convict cichlid

The species also occurs outside its natural range in Australia: in the warm effluent of power stations in Victoria, and in tropical Queensland.

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.

Dariusz Trafas

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

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.

Dreamworld Tower

The Dreamworld Tower is able to be viewed with the naked eye from Coochiemudlo Island in Moreton Bay, providing the atmospheric condition allows for this.

Earl of Ducie

He was a sheep and cattle farmer in Queensland, Australia, and also held several political offices in the state government.

Ekka

The Ekka is organised by the Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland (RNA), and is held at the RNA Showgrounds in the inner-city suburb of Bowen Hills approximately two kilometres north-east of Brisbane's city centre.

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 Aspley

The district is located in the north-eastern residential suburbs of Brisbane, encompassing Aspley, Bridgeman Downs, and Carseldine, as well as parts of McDowall, West Chermside, Lawnton, and Zillmere.

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.

Geoff Grover

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

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.

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.

Hage

Descendants of that group eventually emigrated to Australia around 1900, to South Stradbroke Island near the Gold Coast in the state of Queensland.

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.

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.

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.

King plate

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

Kings Beach, California

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

Kym Jackson

At age seventeen, Jackson moved from Logan City, Queensland to Surfers Paradise, to pursue a film career, working as a tour guide at Warner Brothers Studios while training for film and TV, and auditioning for roles.

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.

Lawnton

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

Machinery of government

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

Magic 882

In August 2002, the stations transmitter in Wynnum West was felled by vandals, causing the station to go off air.

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.

Merivale Bridge

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

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. 396 Expeditionary Combat Support Wing RAAF

Part of the Combat Support Group, it is responsible for the provision of combat and base support services and maintains the RAAF's "bare bases" at Weipa, Exmouth and Derby in the northern part of Australia's airspace.

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.

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.

Past Brothers

At present, Past Brothers competes in the South East Division junior competitions, playing out of Gibson Park in Stafford.

Queensland Fire and Rescue Service

Location:Kedron, Queensland, Australia

Queensland Housing Commission

In the Brisbane suburb of Stafford a significant number of post-war Queensland Housing Commission homes were built on quarter-acre blocks in the 1940s and 1950s.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shire of Waterford

The Shire of Waterford is a former local government area in the south-east of Queensland, Australia, centred on the town of Waterford.

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.

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.

Sunnybank

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

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 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.

Thomas Moffatt

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

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.

University of Queensland Australian Football Club

UQAFC home games are played at the University of Queensland's No. 7 playing oval on the corner of Sir Fred Schonell Drive and Coleridge Street, St Lucia, Brisbane.

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.

West Coast Range

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


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.

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).

Aila Keto

Aila Inkeri Keto AO (born 14 March 1943) is founder and President of the Rainforest Conservation Society in Queensland, Australia, now known as the Australia Rainforest Conservation Society.

Andrew Dawson

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

Areva Solar

Areva Solar is conducting a 44-MW solar thermal addition with CS Energy to the existing 750-MW Kogan Creek Power Station in Queensland, Australia.

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 heritage law

Australian heritage laws exist at the national (Commonwealth) level, and at each of Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia state levels.

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.

Banksia 'Yellow Wing'

It is a hybrid between Banksia 'Giant Candles' and Banksia spinulosa var. collina from Carnarvon Gorge in Queensland.

Barbara Jefferis Award

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

Cape York

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

Central Coast Centurions

The Centurions coach Rip Taylor was selected to coach alongside Jason Taylor as the assistrant coach of the NSW Residents on the 7th of July 2010 against the Queensland residents before game III of the 2010 State of Origin series at ANZ Stadium.

Chris Boyle

During the game he awarded three penalties (two to Melbourne, one to North Queensland), and handed out two red cards to North Queensland players Chris Grossman and Eric Akoto.

Conscription in Australia

Other notable opponents to Conscription included the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Daniel Mannix, the Queensland Labor Premier Thomas Ryan, Vida Goldstein and the Women's Peace Army.

Fitzgerald Report

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

Great Oakley, Essex

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

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.

Jock Butterfield

Butterfield ended up playing in the Foley Shield competition for Mount Isa and Cloncurry in Queensland's outback until his retirement in the early '70s.

Johannes Christian Brunnich

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

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.

John Rutherford Gordon

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

Justin Lemberg

Born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland, Lemberg put in the best performance of his life to improve his Australian record by more than 2 seconds to claim bronze, just 0.56s behind the American duo of George DiCarlo and John Mykkanen.

Macaduma toxophora

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

Marree, South Australia

Marree was also the home of Tom Kruse, one of the men who drove the mail trucks from Marree to Birdsville in Queensland, a distance of some 700 kilometres.

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.

QRL

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

Queensland Council for Civil Liberties

In 1968, one of the first moves by the Council to support freedom of speech in Queensland, was when council president Jim Kelly supported Brisbane's first Nationalist Socialist Party meeting.

Red-legged pademelon

In Australia it has a scattered distribution from the tip of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to around Tamworth in New South Wales.

Ron Withnall

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

Sabeel Ahmed

Dr. Ahmed was alleged to have been given Dr. Haneef's British mobile phone SIM card when the latter left Britain last year to take a job at the Gold Coast Hospital in 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.

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.

William Galloway

William McNaughton Galloway (1840–1895), mayor of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Wizard Cup

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

Yellow Honeyeater

The Yellow Honeyeater hovers in front of the spectacular flowers of the wild Bottlebrush Orchid or Coelandria smillieae which appear in northern Queensland between August and November, while feeding upon the nectar and pollinating the flowers.