Brisbane Gallery

Gateway Bridge at Dawn, Brisbane, Australia

The Gateway Bridge, in the capital city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is the most easterly crossing of the Brisbane River, situated close to where the river empties out into Moreton Bay. Construction began on 5 June 1980 and the bridge was officially commissioned on 11 January 1986

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On board the Indus emigrant ship

The cover of The Graphic, 29 June 1872, including five illustrations of life on board the Indus emigrant ship, one of the London Line of Queensland Packets, which set sail from Gravesend, Kent and was bound for Brisbane, Australia, carrying over five hundred passengers. Date: 1872

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The Tiny Wallum Sedge Frog

The tiny sedgefrog hiding in the undergrowth of plants growing in a pond. (Litoria olongburensis) - also known as the sharp-snouted reed frog. It is one of a group of frogs that depend on lowland wallum habitat. Wallum is the aboriginal name for the banksia Banksia aemula that usually dominates the sandy soils of coastal southern Queensland and New South Wales