Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of the State of Queensland in Australia. The town of Brisbane is populated of approximately: 940000 inhabitants, while the population of the surrounding urban area borders the 1,7 million inhabitants.

Geography and climate

Brisbane is located in the South-eastern quarter of Queensland. The city spans the Rivière Brisbane, and its suburbs Are longe the shores of the Baie Moreton. Most of Brisbane is on the coastal plain at the East of the Great Dividing Range.

Some of the principal districts of Brisbane:

Ipswich, celebrates for its immense workshop of the rail being in the city as a pleasant tourist attraction. The population almost doubled since 1994. Population: 252.733 inhabitants.
Logan City - a great zone of growth. Population: 120.500 inhabitants.
Redcliffe - a splendid mini-city outside Brisbane famous for its beaches and one of the longest bridges of the southern hemisphere, which connects the periphery of the city to the Peninsula of Redcliffe. Population: 49.071 inhabitants.
Caboolture - a great zone in the north of Brisbane. Population: 112.458 inhabitants.
Rivers Prick - a county associated with Brisbane. Population: 119.236.
Valley Fortitude - district popular in the past become one of the hot spots of the night life of the city. It also shelters Chinatown.
Toowong - studied district located at 4km of the center town at the edge of the River Brisbane. Near to the university of Queensland.

Brisbane has a climate Subtropical with hot and soft winters and summers (from November to April) moist.

Some climatic averages:

maximum average temperature of January - 29.4°C
minimal average temperature of January - 20.7°C
maximum average temperature of July - 20.4°C
minimal average temperature of July - 9.5°C
average annual precipitations - 1146.4mm
the wettest month on average - January, 159.6mm
the driest month on average - August, 45.9mm

Some extreme histories:

maximum temperature - 43.2°C, January 26th 1940
minimal temperature - 2.3°C, July 12th 1894 and wettest July 2nd 1896
the month - 1026 mm of Rain, February 1893
the wettest day - 465 mm, January 21st 1887
the strongest gust of wind - 145 km/h February 4th 1988

Demography

The population of the town of Brisbane is estimated at 1.600.000 inhabitants. With the areas under local government surrounding, Brisbane has a metropolitan population estimated at 1.733.200 inhabitants in 2003. Brisbane City Council is populated Local Zones of Government in Australia and is one of the more big cities of the world in term of surface. Brisbane has the highest growth rate of capitals of Australia. The metropolitan population increased by 10,5% between 1998 and 2003.

Economy

Brisbane has an economy varied and generally active with many sectors and industries represented in the total production of goods and services of the city. Industries and the services are goods represented. In the service sector, one finds the Technologies information and the communication, the finance departments, the high studies and administrations of the public sector generally concentrated in and around the center town, and recently established parks of offices in suburbs. The industrial sector of production covers the oil refining, the maritime transport, the paper mill, the metallurgy and the workshops of rail of QR; their geographical presence corresponds rather to the downstream of the Rivière Brisbane and to the new industrial parks on the urban edge.

Government

The March 27th 2004, the former civil engineer Campbell Newman beat the Lord-maire places Tim Quinn from there at the municipal elections. Newman is a member of the Liberal party, and is only the second liberal Lord Mayor of Brisbane.

The town of Brisbane is divided into 26 zones, each one of them electing a member of the council. The Lord Mayor is also elected every four years per popular vote, to which all the residents must take part. Currently, the Australian Workers party has a majority of seats to the Council, which causes inevitable problems when the council and the Lord Mayor discuss.

Twinnings

History

The city is named according to Sir Thomas Brisbane (1773 - 1860), a British Soldat and colonial administrator born with Ayrshire in Scotland. However, before British colonization, Brisbane was called “Meeaan-jin” by the Turrbul tribe. In 1823, the explorer John Oxley discovered the Rivière Brisbane and in 1824, the first settlement penal was established with Redcliffe. One year after only, the colony was moved towards the south, of Redcliffe to North Quay on the Rivière Brisbane, which now forms part of the center town of Brisbane. In 1842, the zone was open for a free colonization, while the penal settlement was closed. From here, 1869, almost all the Turrbul tribe had died. The few survivors escaped from the area using one of the colonists, Tom Petrie. When the Queensland separated from the News-Wales of the South and became an autonomous colony, Brisbane was declared by it the capital, but it was not before 1902 that Brisbane was officially recognized " city" . In 1924, the “City off Brisbane Act” ( Act of the Town of Brisbane ) had passed, giving to Brisbane a local government, which began its work in 1925. During the Second world war, the American troops stationed in the city, and this one became the general headquarter of the General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the allied Forces of South-western the Pacifique area.

Brisbane underwent three severe Inondation S of the Rivière Brisbane: in 1864, 1893 and 1974.

External bonds

Brisbane on Wikitravel
Queensland University off Technology
University of Queensland
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au
http://www.ourbrisbane.com
http://www.cityofbrisbane.info
the Alliance Fran1caise of Brisbane

Tourism in Australia

Simple: Brisbane Zh-yue: 布里斯班

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