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Answer for the clue "A state in northeastern Australia ", 10 letters:
queensland

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Queensland (abbreviated as QLD ) is the second-largest and third-most-populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia . Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory , South Australia and New South Wales to the west, ...

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Australian state, founded 1859 and named for Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

Usage examples of queensland.

Yhi is the Sun Woman of the Arunta people who now live just west of Queensland in central Australia.

Enjoying himself enormously, he began to drove the Western Queensland stock routes, down the Cooper and the Diamantina, the Barcoo and the Bulloo Overflow dwindling through the top corner of western New South Wales.

This fire-tree is a Brachychiton, and it is of the same genus as the Queensland bottletree.

These little blighters are so successful, one species has been introduced from South America to effectively control Harrisia cactus in Queensland.

Reporters shoved microphones at people and asked leading questions-in a Bolivian shoe factory, a Hassidic community in upstate New York, a firehouse in Queensland, Australia.

Actuated by the same considerations as those settlers in Fiji and Samoa who were hoping to take advantage of the high prices caused by the American Civil War, Towns concluded that Queensland had good plantation possibilities.

More importantly, it gave perhaps 100,000 Melanesians direct, personal experience of life in European frontier-settlements: perhaps half of them in Queensland, about 20,000 in Fiji, and the remainder recruited by French and German agents for work in New Caledonia, Samoa and New Guinea.

He was not altogether unknown to me by name, for I had heard of Hugh Wharfedale in Melbourne, which metropolis he visited at intervals, although his stations lay principally within the colonies of New South Wales and Queensland.

How does the regal bird of the jungles of North Queensland acquire this lightning-like stroke?

The South African Light Horse, the New Zealanders, and the Queensland Bushmen all rode in upon them.

In the 1990s, indigenous players have comprised about half the backline in the Queensland State of Origin rugby league team.

Ban­ning was going “up north” to some place called Townesville, Queensland, where the Coastwatchers had their headquarters.

Ban-ning was going "up north" to some place called Townesville, Queensland, where the Coastwatchers had their headquarters.

Of course, he already had a few million outside the country, so he could buy himself a nice little cattle station up in Queensland.

William Munday, a highly respected citizen of the town of Tooringa, in Queensland, was walking to the neighbouring town of Toowong to attend a masonic gathering.