Geography
Queensland is located in the North-East of the Australien continent and is the second largest State in Australia. It is more than five times as large as Germany or Britain. The population is about
4.5 and more than the half are living in Brisbane. With New South Wales is Queensland the state with the largest proportion of Aboriginal. There live 26 percent of the total Aboriginal population of Australia. The capital is Brisbane with a population of 1.5. Other bigger towns in Queensland are
Gold Coast, Townsville, Cairns und Rockhampton. Nature Reserve in Queensland are the big Barrier reef, Fraser Island and the rain forest on the cape York Island in the north of the state.
History
The Europeans discovered queensland for the first time in the 1600s. They came about the golf of Carpentaria. It belonged till 1851 to New South Wales and was called only in 1859 by queen Elisabeth completely as an own federal state. From the 3rd of Semptember, 1824 to 10th of December 1859, was the british colony Queensland a part of New South Wales. On the 26th of June, 1879 Torres Strait Island and Barrier Reef/Whitsunday Iceland was assigned to Queensland. Queensland became on the 1st of January, 1901 a federal state of Australia.
Climate
In the south of Queensland is the climate tropical, warm, sunny with mild winters. More to the north the climate becomes slowly tropical. The tropical summer begins here from January to April with rain and storms. The average temperatures amount in summer between 21 degrees and 29 degrees, in winter between 10 degrees and 26 degrees. Because of his pleasant climate is queensland often called also Sunshine State. In the region of the tropical north of queensland is the temperature in summer between 24 degrees to 31 degrees, in winter 10 to 16 degrees. Because of the low air humidity are in Queensland often forest fires.
National Park
The national park Barron Gorge is especially known for his tropical rainforest.
Here are living animals like kangaroos, beak animals, bats, birds and butterflies.
Tortoises live in the Barron- river together with fishes like Welsen and eels.
The Barron Gorge National Park has an own railway station and is at the same time a part of the traditional area of the native(Aborigines).Waterfalls can be enjoyed on the Observation Tower. It is located directly at the train station. Particularly at high water is the view a true experience.