Queensland

[ kweenz-land, -luhnd ]

noun

1. a state in NE Australia. 670,500 sq. mi. (1,736,595 sq. km). : Brisbane.

Queensland

/ ˈkwiːnzˌlænd; -lənd /

noun

1. 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: 3 840 111 (2003 est). Area: 1 727 500 sq km (667 000 sq miles)

Example Sentences

He last visited Australia in March 2011 to visit flood-damaged areas of Queensland and Victoria.

From The Daily Beast

Harry spent time in Australia in 2003 during his gap year, working as a “jackaroo” at a Queensland cattle station.

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Australia Ever Present: Photographs From the Collection 1850–1975, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, June 8–October 7.

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Quilts 1700–1945, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, June 15–September 22.

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Tropical cyclone Oswald has produced a blanketing of sea foam in parts of Queensland, Australia.

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They called him "Stiffner" because he used, long before, to get a living by poisoning wild dogs near the Queensland border.

From Project Gutenberg

At a given signal one boat leaves for Wentworth, and the other starts for the Queensland border.

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It is closely related to the Barramunda of the Queensland rivers belonging to the order Dipnoi.

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During the following year, 1891, there was a tough struggle in Queensland, where shearing began with the first month.

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Let the Queensland sugar fields, and the seven millions sunk in them, revert to the desert waste they were before.

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