Australia was originally established as a penal colony of Great Britain. A few of the state and city names are therefore connected to members of the royal family and Great Britain, for example New...
Queensland was named in 1859 when Queen Victoria signed Letters Patent, which declared that Queensland was now a separate colony from New South Wales.Queenslanders celebrate June 6 every year as...
Theoretically, Queensland was "discovered" when James Cook became the first European to sail up the eastern coast of Australia, doing so in 1770. However, the entire eastern half of the continent was...
about 1.000 times the size. Wierd Question?? But Queensland is: ...the second largest Australian state. If the State of Queensland was a country, it would rank as the 25th largest in the world; in...