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The Colony of Queensland was a colony of the British Empire from 1859 to 1901, when it became a State in the federal Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. At its greatest extent, the colony included the present-day State of Queensland, the Territory of Papua and the Coral Sea Islands Territory .
- History of Queensland
Queensland separated from the Colony of New South Wales as a...
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On 6 June 1859 (now commemorated as Queensland Day), Queen...
- History of Queensland
Queensland was originally part of the British-administered colony of New South Wales. This occupied a large part of the Australian continent. A desire to separate from New South Wales began to emerge as Queensland's economic significance increased and its productivity and population expanded.
Peter Griggs. During the late 1850s, pastoralists in New South Wales were pushing the boundaries of settlement ever northward throughout what would become the new colony of Queensland. As new maps were published over the next two decades gradually the details and features of the colony emerged.
Home Geography & Travel States & Other Subdivisions. History of Queensland. Early exploration and settlement. During the period of initial European exploration of Australia and the region of present-day Queensland, some 250,000 Aborigines inhabited the area, it has been estimated.
station in a very pitiable condition. Sir Thomas Mitchell, then Surveyor-General, had started in Novem-. ber, 1845, on an expedition for the purpose of ascertaining the nature of. the country to the west and north-west of Moreton Bay, and, skirting the. centre of Australia, of reaching Port Kssington, which last attempt was, however, abandoned.
