Queensland - a state in northeastern AustraliaAustralia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony Brisbane - capital and largest city of Queensland state; located in the southeastern corner of Queensland on the Pacific; settled by British as a penal colony; 3rd largest city in Australia Cape York Peninsula - a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpenteria and the Coral Sea Moreton Bay - an arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay east of Brisbane |