Crossword clues for queensland
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Australian state, founded 1859 and named for Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
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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, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. Queensland has a population of 4,750,500, concentrated along the coast and particularly in the state's South East. The state is the world's sixth largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 km. The capital and largest city in the state is Brisbane, Australia's third largest city. Often referred to as the "Sunshine State", Queensland is home to 10 of Australia's 30 largest cities and is the nation's third largest economy. Tourism in the state, fuelled largely by its warm tropical climate, is a major industry.
Queensland was first inhabited by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. The first European to land in Queensland (and Australia) was Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1606, who explored the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula near present-day Weipa. In 1770, Lieutenant James Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for the Kingdom of Great Britain. The colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 by Governor Arthur Phillip at Sydney; New South Wales at that time included all of what is now Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania. Queensland was explored in subsequent decades until the establishment of a penal colony at Brisbane in 1824 by John Oxley. Penal transportation ceased in 1839 and free settlement was allowed from 1842.
The state was named in honour of Queen Victoria, who on 6 June 1859 signed Letters Patent separating the colony from New South Wales. The 6th of June is now celebrated annually statewide as Queensland Day. Queen Victoria, who went on to become Britain and Australia's second longest reigning monarch, chose an eponymous name for the colony over Cooksland, which had been suggested by the influential local Presbyterian minister John Dunmore Lang in honour of navigator James Cook. Queensland achieved statehood with the Federation of Australia on 1 January 1901.
Queensland is an Australian state.
Queensland may also refer to:
- Queensland, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Alberta, Canada
- Queensland, Georgia, an unincorporated town in Georgia, U.S.
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.