Brisbane’s main brief
- Filed under: world
- Date: Jun 4,2008
City Profile
Brisbane is Australia’s third largest city, the country’s largest port, the capital of Queensland. The capital of Queensland, Australia and ports, major commercial and industrial center. Brisbane River in the lower reaches of the two sides, the town 25 km from the estuary. Ipswich and the west has been linked one, then extended to the east since Lei Deke Cliff and Lei Delan between the regions along the coast, the area of 2494 square kilometres. A population of about 1.12 million. Great Dividing Range, west of Darling Hilly grass, wheat, flax, sheep and dairy production; eastern coastal regions are sugar cane, pineapples and other tropical crops origin, for the urban agricultural and livestock products processing and the development of foreign trade provides a good resource conditions. Warm climate, moderate rainfall. The average annual temperature of 20.5 ℃. The hottest month (February) the average temperature of 24.7 ℃, the most Lengyue (July) 15 ℃. The average 1,153 mm of precipitation, mostly concentrated in the December to March the following year, after the rain caused rivers often flood.
City History
Brisbane, the name stems from the colonial era colonial district of New South Wales Governor’s official name. The city initially called Moreton, a New South Wales jurisdiction. 1824 began to build for the exile of prisoners. Since then, as the system of criminal exile were cancelled, 1842, open for free settlements, residents gradually increased, the town also has expanded. A port in 1854, 1859, from Queensland, New South Wales to set up a separate colonial zone, Brisbane will become the capital of the colonial area, the municipality built the same year, the city established in 1902. Read the rest of this entry »
