Queensland

[ kweenz-land, -luhnd ]

noun

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

Queensland

/ -lənd; ˈkwiːnzˌlænd /

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

In the scrubgrass of Queensland, the cavalry speeds silently through the woods.

From Popular-Science

He was an Englishman who came to Queensland in the 1800s and trained as a pharmacist.

From Nautilus

Fontes, a native Californian, was so entranced that he decided to stay and work as a dive instructor at Airlie Beach, a coastal resort town in Queensland that serves as a gateway to the reef.

From Time

It lived in southwest Queensland between 92–96 million years ago, when Australia was attached to Antarctica, and the last vestiges of a once-great inland sea had disappeared.

From The Daily Beast

In Queensland, Binna Burra Lodge lost its heritage lodge building in the fires, but it sprang back with campsites, safari tents and apartments that suffered only smoke damage.

From Washington Post

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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg