Queensland

Queensland [ˈkwiːnzˌlænd -lənd]

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(Placename) a state of NE Australia: fringed on the Pacific side by the Great Barrier Reef; the Great Dividing Range lies in the east, separating the coastal lowlands from the dry Great Artesian Basin in the south. Capital: Brisbane. Pop.: 3 512 360 (1999 est.). Area: 1 727 500 sq. km (667 000 sq. miles)

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Queensland - a state in northeastern Australia     Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony Brisbane - capital and largest city of Queensland state; located in the southeastern corner of Queensland on the Pacific; settled by British as a penal colony; 3rd largest city in Australia Cape York Peninsula - a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea Moreton Bay - an arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay to the east of Brisbane Mount Bartle Frere - the highest mountain peak in Queensland, Australia