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Replica of the HMB Endeavour in Cooktown harbour.

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A drawing of a smallmouth scad.

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Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington.

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Sir Littleton Ernest Groom, KCMG.

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Urangan Pier in 2010

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Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island

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The 119 m Dreamworld Tower

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Wivenhoe Dam spilling with all five floodgates open in October 2010
  • ...that the town of Killarney was hit by a destructive tornado on Saturday 23 November 1968, which destroyed many buildings?
  • ...that the Windorah Solar Farm uses five concentrated solar dishes each containing 112 square mirrors which sit atop 13 m masts and can rotate 360°?
  • ...that Wivenhoe Dam (pictured) is home to the vulnerable Queensland lungfish?
  • ...that Stanthorpe holds the record for the lowest temperature recorded in Queensland at -10.6 °C on 23 June 1961?

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Ramsay Bay beach and Mount Bowen

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Coastal defences on Bribie Island

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Mount Kootaloo behind Brammo Bay on Dunk Island.

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Coat of Arms of Queensland
  • ...from the Brisbane Centre at Brisbane Airport, Airservices Australia manages the airspace over the northern half of Australia, representing 5% of the world’s total airspace?
  • ...that the first female police officers of the Queensland Police were inducted in 1931?
  • ...that goats left by early survey vessel mariners and the early guano vessels on Lady Musgrave Island were finally removed in 1974?
  • ...that the Coat of arms of Queensland (pictured) includes a shield containing representations of Queensland's most abundant industries?

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Tornado funnel slide at Wet'n'Wild Water World

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Billy Slater after the 2009 NRL Grand Final

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Brisbane City Hall, 2005
  • ...that Wayne Bennett, an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player, had a reputation for almost never smiling?
  • ...that although Brisbane City Hall (pictured) was officially opened on 8 April 1930, it had been partially occupied since 1927?
  • ...that the Clem Jones Tunnel in Brisbane has Queensland's highest concentration of fixed speed detection devices?
  • ...that the Capricorn Coast is home to a large South Sea Islander population, who are descendents of people indentured, often against their will, to work the sugar cane farms in the 1890s?

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Innisfail, Johnstone River and surrounds, 2005

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Gas Stripping Tower in 2013