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Geographic Locations > Islands > Australia > Queensland
Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > Australia > Queensland
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > Australia > Queensland
Geographic Locations > Oceania > Australasia > Australia > Queensland

Preferred term

Queensland  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • a state of Australia

Scope note

  • A state in northeastern Australia. Its capital is Brisbane. Its coast was first visited by Captain Cook in 1770 and its first settlement (penal) was located on Moreton Bay in 1824. The name Cooksland was first proposed but honor to Queen Victoria prevailed. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p996 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p441)

History note

  • 88

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011793

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