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Moreton Bay

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The Moreton Bay is a bay located on the eastern coast of Australia from central Brisbane, Queensland. [1]

164 relations: ABC News (Australia), ABC News and Current Affairs, Aboriginal Australians, Albert River (South East Queensland), Amity, Queensland, Andrew McNamara, Angling, Anna Bligh, Araucaria bidwillii, Artemisia (ship), Artificial reef, Barrier island, Bay, Beach nourishment, Bight (geography), Biostar, BirdLife International, Blue whale, Bramble Bay, Bribie Island, Brighton, Queensland, Brisbane, Brisbane Airport, Brisbane River, Brisbane Times, Brisbane to Gladstone yacht race, Bryde's whale, Caboolture River, Caloundra, Channel (geography), China–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement, Cleveland, Queensland, Coochiemudlo Island, Coral Sea, Deception Bay, Queensland, Department of the Environment and Energy, Dugong, Dunwich, Queensland, East Asian–Australasian Flyway, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, Environmental Protection Agency (Queensland), Ficus macrophylla, Fortitude (ship), Free market, Gold Coast Broadwater, Gold Coast Seaway, Good Friday, Government of Queensland, History of Australia (1788–1850), Humpback whale, ..., Humus, Important Bird Area, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous peoples, James Cook, James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, Japan–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement, Jetty, John Oxley, Karragarra Island, Queensland, Killer whale, Lamb Island, Queensland, List of Queensland's Q150 Icons, Logan River, Loggerhead sea turtle, Lyngbya, Macleay Island, Mangrove, Margate, Queensland, Marina, Marine park, Mark Robinson (Australian politician), Matthew Flinders, Melbourne University Publishing, Melon-headed whale, Minke whale, Missionary, Moreton Bay (song), Moreton Bay Classic, Moreton Bay Marine Park, Moreton Bay Pile Light, Moreton Bay Region, Moreton Island, Moreton Island National Park, MV Pacific Mariner, National Library of Australia, New Zealand, Noise pollution, North Stradbroke Island, Ocean current, Pastoralism, Peel Island, Penal colony, Pilot station, Pimpama River, Pine River (Queensland), Pinkenba, Queensland, Plantation, Plume (fluid dynamics), Point Lookout, Queensland, Port of Brisbane, Pumicestone Passage, Q150, Quandamooka people, Quarantine, Queensland, Queensland Museum, Raby Bay, Ramsar Convention, Redcliffe, Queensland, Redland Bay, Queensland, Redland City, Republic of Korea–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement, ResearchGate, Residential area, Risso's dolphin, Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, Royal Society, Russell Island (Moreton Bay), Sand, Sand island, Sandgate, Queensland, Scarborough, Queensland, Schulz Canal, Scott Driscoll, Sea lane, Sea level rise, Seagrass, Sediment, Shark, Shoal, Shorncliffe pier, Slipper lobster, Social network, Social relation, South East Queensland, South Passage (Queensland), South Stradbroke Island, Southern Moreton Bay Islands (Redland City), Southern Moreton Bay Islands National Park, Southern right whale, Sperm whale, Spinner dolphin, SS John Oxley, St Helena Island National Park, State Library of Queensland, Stradbroke Island, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Tangalooma, Queensland, Tasmania, The Courier-Mail, The Sunday Mail (Brisbane), Thenus, Tidal range, Tingalpa Creek, Toondah Harbour, University of Queensland, Victoria (Australia), Victoria Point, Queensland, Wetland, Whale watching, Woody Point, Queensland, YouTube, 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill. Expand index (114 more) »

ABC News (Australia)

ABC News is a national news service in Australia produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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ABC News and Current Affairs

ABC News and Current Affairs is the name of the division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that controls content classified as news, public affairs and business and finance.

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Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania).

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Albert River (South East Queensland)

The Albert River is a perennial river located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia.

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Amity, Queensland

Amity is a small town and locality located on the north western point of North Stradbroke Island (known as Amity Point) within Redland City, Queensland, Australia.

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Andrew McNamara

Andrew Ian McNamara (born 19 August 1959) is an Australian politician.

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Angling

Angling is a method of fishing by means of an "angle" (fish hook).

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Anna Bligh

Anna Maria Bligh (born 14 July 1960) is a former Australian politician who served as the 37th Premier of Queensland, in office from 2007 to 2012 as leader of the Labor Party.

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Araucaria bidwillii

Araucaria bidwillii, the bunya pine, is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the plant family Araucariaceae.

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Artemisia (ship)

The Artemisia Almost all sources spell the name Artemisia; however, the spelling Artemesia has been used in at least one source: Ronald Wood (1990) "Artemesia: the first migrant ship to Moreton Bay", Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, Vol.

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Artificial reef

An artificial reef is a man-made underwater structure, typically built to promote marine life in areas with a generally featureless bottom, to control erosion, block ship passage, or improve surfing.

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Barrier island

Barrier islands are coastal landforms and a type of dune system that are exceptionally flat or lumpy areas of sand that form by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast.

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Bay

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.

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Beach nourishment

Beach nourishment (also referred to as beach renourishment, beach replenishment, or sand replenishment) describes a process by which sediment, usually sand, lost through longshore drift or erosion is replaced from other sources.

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Bight (geography)

In geography, a bight is a bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.

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Biostar

Biostar Microtech International Corp (Biostar) is a motherboard manufacturer based in Taiwan, designing and manufacturing of computer hardware products such as motherboards, video cards, expansion cards, thermal grease, headphones, home theater PCs, remote controls, desktops, barebone computers, system-on-chip solutions and industrial PCs.

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BirdLife International

BirdLife International (formerly the International Council for Bird Preservation) is a global partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats, and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

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Blue whale

The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whale parvorder, Mysticeti.

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Bramble Bay

Bramble Bay is an embayment of Moreton Bay in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Bribie Island

Bribie Island is the smallest and most northerly of three major sand islands forming the coastline sheltering the northern part of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.

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Brighton, Queensland

Brighton is the northernmost suburb of Brisbane City, Australia, located north of the Brisbane CBD.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Brisbane Airport

Brisbane Airport is the primary international airport serving Brisbane and South East Queensland.

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Brisbane River

The Brisbane River (indigenous name Maiwar) is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay.

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Brisbane Times

Brisbane Times is an online newspaper for Brisbane and Queensland, Australia.

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Brisbane to Gladstone yacht race

The Brisbane to Gladstone yacht race is held annually, starting on Good Friday.

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Bryde's whale

Bryde's whale or the Bryde's whale complex putatively comprises two species of rorqual and maybe three.

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Caboolture River

The Caboolture River is a small river in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Caloundra

Caloundra is the southernmost town in the Sunshine Coast Region in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Channel (geography)

In physical geography, a channel is a type of landform consisting of the outline of a path of relatively shallow and narrow body of fluid, most commonly the confine of a river, river delta or strait.

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China–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement

The China–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (CAMBA) is a treaty between Australia and China to minimise harm to the major areas used by migratory birds which migrate between the two countries.

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Cleveland, Queensland

Cleveland is a locality of Redland City, Queensland, Australia.

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Coochiemudlo Island

Coochiemudlo Island is a small island in the southern part of Moreton Bay, near Brisbane, in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Coral Sea

The Coral Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion.

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Deception Bay, Queensland

Deception Bay is a suburb in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Department of the Environment and Energy

The Department of the Environment and Energy is an Australian government department.

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Dugong

The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a medium-sized marine mammal.

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Dunwich, Queensland

Dunwich which is known as Goompi by the traditional owners; the Quandamooka people, is a small town and locality on the western side of North Stradbroke Island in Queensland, Australia.

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East Asian–Australasian Flyway

The East Asian–Australasian Flyway is one of the world's great flyways.

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and culturally significant places.

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Environmental Protection Agency (Queensland)

Queensland's Environmental Protection Agency (abbreviated to EPA) was for some time a separate department of the Queensland Government, and, following 2009 State elections, became a part of the Government's larger Department of Environment and Resource Management.

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Ficus macrophylla

Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay fig or Australian banyan, is a large evergreen banyan tree of the family Moraceae native to eastern Australia, from the Wide Bay–Burnett region in the north to the Illawarra in New South Wales, as well as Lord Howe Island.

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Fortitude (ship)

Fortitude was a sailing ship.

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Free market

In economics, a free market is an idealized system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.

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Gold Coast Broadwater

The Gold Coast Broadwater, also known as Southport Broadwater, Gold Coast Harbour and The Broadwater, is a large shallow estuary of water located in the district of South East Queensland, Australia.

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Gold Coast Seaway

The Gold Coast Seaway or Southport Seaway is the main navigation entrance from the Pacific Ocean into the Gold Coast Broadwater and southern Moreton Bay and is one of Australia’s most significant coastal engineering projects.

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Good Friday

Good Friday is a Christian holiday celebrating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.

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Government of Queensland

The Government of Queensland, also referred to as the Queensland Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Queensland.

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History of Australia (1788–1850)

The history of Australia from 1788–1850 covers the early colonial period of Australia's history, from the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Sydney, New South Wales, who established the penal colony, the scientific exploration of the continent and later, establishment of other Australian colonies and the beginnings of representative democratic government.

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Humpback whale

The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.

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Humus

In soil science, humus (derived in 1790–1800 from the Latin humus for earth, ground) denominates the fraction of soil organic matter that is amorphous and without the "cellular cake structure characteristic of plants, micro-organisms or animals." Humus significantly affects the bulk density of soil and contributes to its retention of moisture and nutrients.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, are ethnic groups who are the pre-colonial original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728Old style date: 27 October14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

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James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton

James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, KT, PRS (1702 – 12 October 1768) was a Scottish astronomer and representative peer who was President of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh from its foundation in 1737 until his death.

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Japan–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement

The Japan Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (JAMBA) is a treaty between Australia and Japan to minimise harm to the major areas used by birds which migrate between the two countries.

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Jetty

A jetty is a structure that projects from the land out into water.

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John Oxley

John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (1784 – 25 May 1828) was an explorer and surveyor of Australia in the early period of British colonisation.

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Karragarra Island, Queensland

Karragarra Island is a small island in the southern part of Moreton Bay, near Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia.

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Killer whale

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Lamb Island, Queensland

Lamb Island is a small island in the southern part of Moreton Bay, near Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia.

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List of Queensland's Q150 Icons

Queensland's Q150 Icons is an official list of cultural icons compiled as part of Q150 (the 150th birthday of Queensland) in 2009 by the Government of Queensland, Australia, that represent the people, places and events that are significant to Queensland.

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Logan River

The Logan River (Yugambeh: Dugulumba) is a perennial river located in the Scenic Rim, Logan and Gold Coast local government areas of the South East region of Queensland, Australia.

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Loggerhead sea turtle

The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), or loggerhead, is an oceanic turtle distributed throughout the world.

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Lyngbya

Lyngbya is a genus of cyanobacteria, unicellular autotrophs that form the basis of the oceanic food chain.

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Macleay Island

Macleay Island is an island in Moreton Bay, South East Queensland, Australia.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Margate, Queensland

Margate is a residential suburb of the Moreton Bay Region in the east of the Redcliffe peninsula, approximately north-northeast of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia.

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Marina

A marina (from Spanish, Portuguese and Italian: marina, "coast" or "shore") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.

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Marine park

A marine park is a park consisting of an area of sea (or lake) sometimes protected for recreational use, but more often set aside to preserve a specific habitat and ensure the ecosystem is sustained for the organisms that exist there.

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Mark Robinson (Australian politician)

Mark Andrew Robinson (born 29 April 1963) is an Australian politician who is a former Deputy Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

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Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.

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Melbourne University Publishing

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne.

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Melon-headed whale

The melon-headed whale or melon-headed dolphin (species Peponocephala electra; other names are many-toothed blackfish, "melon whale" and electra dolphin) is a cetacean of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae).

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Minke whale

The minke whale, or lesser rorqual, is a type of baleen whale.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Moreton Bay (song)

"Moreton Bay" is an Australian folk ballad which tells of the hardship a convict experienced at penal settlements around Australia, in particular, the penal colony at Moreton Bay, Queensland which was established to house convicts who had reoffended in settlements in New South Wales.

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Moreton Bay Classic

The Moreton Bay Classic ('MBC') is a yearly fishing tournament run by Brisbane Fishing Online held in Moreton Bay in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Moreton Bay Marine Park

The Moreton Bay Marine Park was established in 1992 to protect ecologically significant habitats in Moreton Bay.

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Moreton Bay Pile Light

Moreton Bay Pile Light was a pile lighthouse positioned at the mouth of Brisbane River, in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, marking the entrance to the port of Brisbane.

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Moreton Bay Region

The Moreton Bay Region is a local government area in the north of the Brisbane metropolitan area in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Moreton Island

Moreton Island is an island on the eastern side of Moreton Bay on the coast of South East Queensland, Australia.

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Moreton Island National Park

Moreton Island National Park is a national park which covers 98% of Moreton Island in Queensland, Australia, 58 km northeast of Brisbane.

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MV Pacific Mariner

MV Pacific Mariner, formerly MV Pacific Adventurer, is a 1123 TEU geared multi-purpose container ship that gained notoriety after causing Queensland's largest oil spill on the east coast of Australia in March 2009.

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people." In 2012–13, the National Library collection comprised 6,496,772 items, and an additional of manuscript material.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Noise pollution

Sound pollution, also known as environmental noise or noise pollution, is the propagation of noise with harmful impact on the activity of human or animal life.

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North Stradbroke Island

North Stradbroke Island (Indigenous: Minjerribah), colloquially Straddie or North Straddie, is an island that lies within Moreton Bay in the Australian state of Queensland, southeast of the capital Brisbane.

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Ocean current

An ocean current is a seasonal directed movement of sea water generated by forces acting upon this mean flow, such as wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbing, temperature and salinity differences, while tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon.

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Pastoralism

Pastoralism is the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock.

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Peel Island

Peel Island (Indigenous: Teerk Ro Ra) is a small heritage-listed island located in Moreton Bay, east of Brisbane, in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Penal colony

A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory.

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Pilot station

A pilot station is an onshore headquarters for maritime pilots or place pilots can be hired.

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Pimpama River

The Pimpama River is a perennial river located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia.

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Pine River (Queensland)

The Pine River is a small river in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Pinkenba, Queensland

Pinkenba is the name of a suburb in eastern Brisbane, Australia, on the northern side of the Brisbane River, from the Brisbane central business district.

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Plantation

A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.

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Plume (fluid dynamics)

In hydrodynamics, a plume is a column of one fluid moving through another.

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Point Lookout, Queensland

Point Lookout is a headland, small coastal town and locality on the eastern coast of North Stradbroke Island, Redland City, Queensland, Australia.

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Port of Brisbane

Port of Brisbane is the shipping port and suburb of Brisbane, on the east coast of Queensland, Australia.

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Pumicestone Passage

Pumicestone Passage, also known as the Pumicestone Channel, is a narrow waterway between Bribie Island and the mainland in Queensland, Australia.

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Q150

Q150 was the sesquicentenary (150th anniversary) of the Separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859.

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Quandamooka people

The Quandamooka people are an Aboriginal Australian group that live around Moreton Bay in Southeastern Queensland.

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Quarantine

A quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of people; it is a 'a restraint upon the activities or communication of persons or the transport of goods designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests', for a certain period of time.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Queensland Museum

The Queensland Museum is the state museum of Queensland, Australia.

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Raby Bay

Raby Bay is a bay within Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, created by the Cleveland Point headland.

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Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.

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Redcliffe, Queensland

Redcliffe is a residential suburb of the Brisbane metropolitan area located within Moreton Bay Region LGA in the east north-east of the Redcliffe peninsula, approximately north-north-east of the Brisbane CBD.

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Redland Bay, Queensland

Redland Bay is a township at the southern end of Redland City, Queensland, Australia.

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Redland City

Redland City, better known as the Redlands and formerly known as Redland Shire, is a local government area located in the southeast of the Brisbane metropolitan area in South East Queensland.

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Republic of Korea–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement

The Republic of Korea–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (ROKAMBA) is part of international efforts to conserve migratory birds of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway, along with bilateral migratory bird agreements between Australia and Japan (JAMBA, formed in 1974) and Australia and China (CAMBA, signed in 1986).

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ResearchGate

ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.

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Residential area

A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas.

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Risso's dolphin

Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) is the only species of dolphin in the genus Grampus.

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Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron

The Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron is a Squadron not a club which is reflected in its support for all things sailing. in Brisbane, Australia.

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Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

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Russell Island (Moreton Bay)

Russell Island in Redland City is the biggest of the Southern Moreton Bay Islands, situated between the mainland and North Stradbroke Island in the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Sand

Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.

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Sand island

A sand island is an island that is largely or completely made of sand.

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Sandgate, Queensland

Sandgate is a coastal suburb in Brisbane, Australia, north of the Brisbane CBD.

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Scarborough, Queensland

Scarborough is a residential suburb of the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Schulz Canal

Schulz Canal is an artificial waterway in Nundah, Queensland that enters Moreton Bay.

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Scott Driscoll

Scott Nicolaus Driscoll (born 16 April 1975) is a former Australian businessman and politician.

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Sea lane

A sea lane, sea road or shipping lane is a regularly used route for vessels on oceans and large lakes.

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Sea level rise

A sea level rise is an increase in global mean sea level as a result of an increase in the volume of water in the world’s oceans.

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Seagrass

Seagrasses are flowering plants (angiosperms) belonging to four families (Posidoniaceae, Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae and Cymodoceaceae), all in the order Alismatales (in the class of monocotyledons), which grow in marine, fully saline environments.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Shark

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.

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Shoal

In oceanography, geomorphology, and earth sciences, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface.

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Shorncliffe pier

Shorncliffe Pier is a historic pier in Shorncliffe, Queensland, Australia, situated near Saint Patrick’s College and lower Moora Park.

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Slipper lobster

Slipper lobsters are a family (Scyllaridae) of about 90 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda Reptantia, found in all warm oceans and seas.

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Social network

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.

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Social relation

In social science, a social relation or social interaction is any relationship between two or more individuals.

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South East Queensland

South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, political, and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, which contains 3.5 million people out of the state's population of 4.8 million.

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South Passage (Queensland)

South Passage is channel between the South Pacific Ocean and Moreton Bay.

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South Stradbroke Island

The South Stradbroke Island (Indigenous: Minjerribah), colloquially South Straddie, is an island that lies within Moreton Bay in the Australian state of Queensland, south of Brisbane and forms the northern end of Gold Coast.

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Southern Moreton Bay Islands (Redland City)

The Southern Moreton Bay Islands, also known as the Bay Islands, the RKLM, and abbreviated as the SMBI, are the four inhabited southern Moreton Bay islands located in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Southern Moreton Bay Islands National Park

Southern Moreton Bay Islands is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 44 km southeast of Brisbane.

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Southern right whale

The southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena.

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Sperm whale

The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) or cachalot is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.

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Spinner dolphin

The spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) is a small dolphin found in off-shore tropical waters around the world.

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SS John Oxley

SS John Oxley is a steamship that previously served as a pilot boat and lighthouse and buoy tender.

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St Helena Island National Park

St Helena Island is a heritage-listed island in Queensland, Australia, east of Brisbane and east of the mouth of the Brisbane River in Moreton Bay.

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State Library of Queensland

The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library provided to the people of the State of Queensland, Australia, by the state government.

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Stradbroke Island

Stradbroke Island, also known as Minjerribah, was a large sand island that formed much of the eastern side of Moreton Bay near Brisbane, Queensland until the late 19th century.

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Surfers Paradise, Queensland

Surfers Paradise is a suburb within the local government area of City of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

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Tangalooma, Queensland

Originally a whaling station, Tangalooma Island Resort (formerly known as Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort) is a resort on the west side of Moreton Island in Queensland, Australia.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia.

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The Sunday Mail (Brisbane)

The Sunday Mail is Brisbane's only Sunday newspaper.

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Thenus

Thenus orientalis is a species of slipper lobster from the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Tidal range

The tidal range is the vertical difference between the high tide and the succeeding low tide.

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Tingalpa Creek

Tingalpa Creek is a creek in South East Queensland.

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Toondah Harbour

Toondah Harbour, located in Redland City at Cleveland in southern Moreton Bay, is the location of the Stradbroke Island Ferry Terminal used by water taxis and vehicular ferries to provide access to North Stradbroke Island.

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University of Queensland

The University of Queensland (UQ) is a public research university primarily located in Queensland's capital city, Brisbane, Australia.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victoria Point, Queensland

Victoria Point is a locality in Redland City, Queensland, Australia.

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Wetland

A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

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Whale watching

Whale watching is the practice of observing whales and dolphins (cetaceans) in their natural habitat.

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Woody Point, Queensland

Woody Point is a residential suburb of the Moreton Bay Region at the south-east of the Redcliffe peninsula, approximately north-northeast of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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2009 southeast Queensland oil spill

The 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill occurred off the coast of southeast Queensland, Australia on 11 March 2009, when 230 tonnes of fuel oil, 30 tonnes of other fuel and 31 shipping containers containing 620 tonnes of ammonium nitrate spilled into the Coral Sea, north of Moreton Bay during Cyclone Hamish.

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Bayside (Brisbane), Moreton Bay, Queensland.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreton_Bay

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