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List Of Parks In Brisbane
This is a list of major parks, gardens, and nature reserves in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. See also *Brisbane native plants *Australia's Open Garden Scheme *Gardening in Australia *Heritage gardens in Australia *Protected areas of Queensland References External links Brisbane parks and gardens {{Brisbane landmarks Parks in Brisbane, Lists of parks in Australia, Brisbane Lists of tourist attractions in Queensland, Parks Brisbane-related lists, Parks Lists of parks by populated place, Brisbane Gardens in Queensland, Lists of gardens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nature Reserve
A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for purposes of Conservation (ethic), conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research. They may be designated by government institutions in some countries, or by private landowners, such as charities and research institutions. Nature reserves fall into different IUCN protected area categories, IUCN categories depending on the level of protection afforded by local laws. Normally it is more strictly protected than a nature park. Various jurisdictions may use other terminology, such as ecological protection area or private protected area in legislation and in official titles of the reserves. History Cultural practices that roughly equate to the establishmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burbank, Queensland
Burbank is a greenbelt suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Burbank had a population of 1,051 people. Geography Burbank is an outer suburb of City of Brisbane and borders City of Redland to the east and City of Logan to the south. It is bounded in the east by Tingalpa Creek, and was hence known as Upper Tingalpa until 1976. The main road across in the area is the Mount Gravatt-Capalaba Road. There are also a couple of working and hobby farms. There are a few palm nurseries and at least two turf farms in the area. Burbank has a number of churches and temples and there is a Jewish school. The closest public primary school is Mackenzie State School (formerly Mount Petrie State School) in Mackenzie. There are no shops in the suburb and public transport is very limited. The almost entirely residential outer suburb is dominated by large acreage blocks, many with extensive gardens and prestige housing built on them. A dam built in the late 1960s h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newstead House
Newstead House is Brisbane's oldest surviving residence and is located on the Breakfast Creek, Queensland, Breakfast Creek bank of the Brisbane River, in the northern Brisbane suburb of Newstead, Queensland, Newstead, in Queensland, Australia.Trent Dalton, "Grand residence", ''Brisbane News'', 20 November 2002, p 16, Nationwide News Pty Limited via factiva accessed 7 September 2011. Built as a small cottage in the Colonial-Georgian style in 1846, the cottage was extended and today is painted and furnished in a late Victorian style. Newstead House is the oldest surviving home in Brisbane, but not the oldest surviving building, built in 1846, for Patrick Leslie and his wife Catherine (née McArthur).New South Wales fdRegistrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages In 1847 he sold Newstead House to his brother-in-law John Clements Wickham (married to Anna McArthur), the Police Magistrate and Government Resident. Newstead House was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 1992. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Farm, Queensland
New Farm is an inner northern riverside Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , New Farm had a population of 12,197 people. Geography The suburb is located 2 kilometres east of the Brisbane CBD on a large bend of the Brisbane River. New Farm is partly surrounded by the Brisbane River, with land access from the north-west through Fortitude Valley, Queensland, Fortitude Valley and from the north through Newstead, Queensland, Newstead. Merthyr, Queensland, Merthyr is a neighbourhood within New Farm; until 1975 it was a separate suburb.The suburb has an eclectic mix of 19th century History of Australia, colonial constructions; 20th century traditional Queenslander (architecture), Queenslander and Federation architecture, Federation homes; and modern architectural hybrids. New Farm is home to Brisbane's most impressive collection of art deco buildings. As the population density increases and apartment, unit and duplex hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Farm Park
New Farm Park is a heritage-listed riverfront public park at 137 Sydney Street, New Farm, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Albert Herbert Foster and built from 1914 to 1950 by Gladwin Legge & Co. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 7 February 2005. The park covers and is at the southeastern end of the New Farm peninsula on a bend in the Brisbane River. The Powerhouse arts centre is at the eastern end of the park. The park includes the New Farm Park ferry wharf and links to the Brisbane Riverwalk from Newstead to Toowong. It is one of Brisbane's most popular parklands and tourist attractions. History New Farm Park, created in 1914, currently covers of land, and is bounded by Brunswick Street and Sydney Street, New Farm. It adjoins the Brisbane Powerhouse arts precinct and the Brisbane River. Prior to European settlement, the New Farm area was covered with bush and dotted with shallow lagoons. It supported a variety of wildl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Brisbane, Queensland
South Brisbane is an inner southern Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , South Brisbane had a population of 14,292 people. Geography South Brisbane is on the southern bank of the Brisbane River, bounded to the north-west, north, and east by the median of the river. It adjoins the suburbs of Woolloongabba to the east, Highgate Hill, Queensland, Highgate Hill to the south, and West End, Queensland, West End to the southwest. The river to the east of South Brisbane is the South Brisbane Reach.(). The suburb is directly connected to the Brisbane central business district, central business district across the river by the following bridges (upstream to downstream): * Go Between Bridge (toll road, ) * Merivale Bridge (rail, ) * William Jolly Bridge (road, ) * Kurilpa Bridge, Brisbane, Kurilpa Bridge (pedestrian/cycling, ) * Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, Victoria Bridge (road, ) * Goodwill Bridge, Brisbane, Goodwill Bridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musgrave Park, Brisbane
Musgrave Park is a park in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The park is bordered by Edmonstone, Russell, and Cordelia Streets, and Brisbane State High School, and has an area of . The park is of cultural significance to Aboriginal Australians. The park and the former bowls clubhouse (now used as a community centre) are listed on the Brisbane Heritage Register. History Musgrave Park is a remnant of the former Kurilpa (South Brisbane) Aboriginal camping ground that stretched from "Highgate Hill and on (to) the slanting slopes of Cumboomeya ( Somerville House)" and additionally "sometimes they made a camp in the little scrub then situated on the river bank near the recent entrance to the Dry Dock". From here and Woolloongabba, Aboriginal people in the 1840s and 1850s would go into South Brisbane to work chopping wood, carrying water, and selling fish. The South Brisbane Recreation Reserve (as it was originally known) was created in 1856. In 1867, it was proposed to build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Brisbane, Queensland
East Brisbane is an inner southern Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , East Brisbane had a population of 6,186 people. Geography East Brisbane is located south-east of the Brisbane central business district, CBD. It is mostly residential, with some small commercial areas, and has many original Queenslander (architecture), Queenslander houses. East Brisbane is bounded by the median of the Brisbane River to the north, Norman Park, Queensland, Norman Park to the east, Coorparoo, Queensland, Coorparoo to the south-east, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Woolloongabba to the south-west, and Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Kangaroo Point to the north-west. The border between Norman Park and most of Coorparoo follows Norman Creek (Queensland), Norman Creek. Major roads include Lytton Road, Wellington Road, and Latrobe Street in the north, and Vulture Street and Stanley Street in the south of the suburb. The eastern side of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mowbray Park, Brisbane
Mowbray Park and East Brisbane War Memorial are a heritage-listed park and monument within the park on Lytton Road, East Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1904 to 1974. It is also known as East Brisbane War Memorial and Riversdale. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History In 1903–04, the South Brisbane City Council acquired the riverfront property known as Mowbray's Paddock, alienated by Rev. Thomas Mowbray in the 1850s, for public park purposes. The new reserve was named officially as Mowbray Park in September 1904. Rev. Thomas Mowbray had arrived in Moreton Bay in 1847, and although he was never inducted into a charge during his twenty years at Moreton Bay, he was instrumental in establishing the Presbyterian Church in Brisbane in the 1850s. In December 1850, he purchased approximately of land along the southern bank of the Brisbane River at what was then referred to as Kangaroo Point, downstream from Rev. Rober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tingalpa, Queensland
Tingalpa is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Tingalpa had a population of 8,461 people. Geography The suburb is bounded to the west by Bulimba Creek, a tributary of the Brisbane River. The suburb has some older style homes built in the post war period – weatherboard and chamferboard post war cottages in particular. Most of the new estates are made up of typically low set and high set brick and tile homes. Previously the land that is now being developed into residential zones was devoted to small farmlets and semi-industrial developments. The recent developments, which occurred in the last five years, are increasing the population and the median house prices of the suburb. History Tingalpa Creek was surveyed in 1841 and named ''Tingulpa.'' The origin of Tingalpa's name is uncertain. It may be derived from an Aboriginal expression referring to a fat kangaroo, or named after Tingalpa Creek, which lies east, or be derived from the Turr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kianawah Park
Kianawah Park is a park located on Joe Lambert Drive Tingalpa in Queensland, Australia. The park is the oldest one in Tingalpa. The major lease holder is W.C.A.Q (Warehouse Cricket Association of Queensland) with Senior and Junior cricket competitions conducted in Summer and Winter on Saturday and Sunday. 2 day games, 50 over and T20 games available. It is home the BEARs (Brisbane East and Redlands) district cricket playing fields and also host other cricket competitions. The park includes a dog park and 11 cricket fields. The park also has a four net cricket practice area and a canteen open on Saturdays during cricket season. See also *List of parks in Brisbane This is a list of major parks, gardens, and nature reserves in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. See also *Brisbane native plants *Australia's Open Garden Scheme *Gardening in Australia *Heritage gardens in Australia *Protected areas of ... References Parks in Brisbane {{SouthEastQueensland-ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clayfield, Queensland
Clayfield is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Clayfield had a population of 10,897 people. Geography Clayfield is by road from the Brisbane CBD. Clayfield is bordered to the north by Nundah, to the east by Ascot and Hendra, to the west by Wooloowin and to the south by Albion. Its name derives from the fine white-grey sedimentary clay mined in Albion, between Morgan and Sykes Street, used in the brickworks that once existed between Oriel Road and Reeve Street near Sandgate Road. This industry, once known as "the clay fields", was instrumental in the residential surge of European settlement of inner-north Brisbane. Kalinga Park and the Kalinga locality lay on the northern limit. Clayfield also encompasses the locality of Eagle Junction. History In 1874 a Baptist Church opened in Hendra/Clayfield. In October 1885, "Sefton Estate" consisting of 254 16 perch allotments were auctioned by John Cameron, Auctioneer. The land for sale is re- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
