People petitioned to separate, and in Queen Victoria granted them their own colony. As the name perfectly suggests, they named it Queensland to honour Queen Victoria. Not too many people know that this island state was discovered in by Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman.
This is how the state got its name. As the name perfectly suggests, this state was named after Queen Victoria when it separated from New South Wales in People loved Queen Victoria so much!
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The settlement was soon moved to the present site of Brisbane, which became the capital of the new colony of Queensland in The penal settlement at Moreton Bay was closed in From , free settlers and convicts who had been pardoned were encouraged to take up land in the colony.
The majority came from Britain and Europe. Many battles took place as Indigenous people resisted the intrusion and occupation of the land for which they had cared for thousands of years. By the s, the people of Moreton Bay were concerned that the government in Sydney was too far away.
They began to call for the creation of a new colony, and petitioned the British Government to grant their request to separate from New South Wales. But, the squatters had rivals who competed for wealth and power. The plantation owners, cattle graziers and mine operators of central and northern Queensland considered their needs and interests to be different from those who governed them from Brisbane.
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