Australian Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Complete the sentence about Australian Outback with the correct year: In ______, as part of the Q150 celebrations, the Queensland Outback was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its rā€¦
  2. Complete the sentence about Australian Outback with the correct year: The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in ______, 25 years afterā€¦
  3. Complete the sentence about Australian Outback with the correct year: From ______ onwards, the so-called "Afghan" cameleers and their beasts played an instrumental role in opening up the Outback and hā€¦
  4. Complete the sentence about Murray River with the correct year: Major settlements along the course of the river, from its source to the Southern Ocean, and their populations from the ______ Australianā€¦
  5. Complete the sentence about Murray River with the correct year: The most significant was the flood of ______: lasting for up to six months, it inundated many towns on its lower reaches in South Austraā€¦
  6. Complete the sentence about Darling River with the correct year: In ______ the explorers Charles Sturt and Hamilton Hume were sent by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Ralph Darling, to investigateā€¦
  7. Complete the sentence about Darling River with the correct year: In ______, the Blandowski Expedition set off for the junction of the Darling and Murray Rivers to discover and collect fish species forā€¦
  8. Complete the sentence about Darling River with the correct year: In ______, the Darling River suffered from a severe cyanobacterial bloom that stretched the length of the river.
  9. Complete the sentence about Darling River with the correct year: In ______, the Federal government purchased Toorale Station in northern New South Wales for $23 million.
  10. Complete the sentence about Murrumbidgee River with the correct year: Tantangara Dam was completed in ______ on the headwaters of Murrumbidgee River and diverted approximately 99% of the river's flowā€¦
  11. Complete the sentence about Murrumbidgee River with the correct year: The river he had stumbled upon was in fact the Molonglo River, Throsby reached the actual river in April ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Murrumbidgee River with the correct year: In ______, Brigade-Major John Ovens and Captain Mark Currie reached the upper Murrumbidgee when exploring south of Lake George.
  13. Complete the sentence about Murrumbidgee River with the correct year: Even in ______, when Hume found the Yass Plains, almost on its bank, he makes no special mention of the river.
  14. Complete the sentence about Swan River with the correct year: The Swan River was named by Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh in ______ after the black swans endemic to the region.
  15. Complete the sentence about Swan River with the correct year: Perth Water, between the city and South Perth, is separated from the main estuary by the Narrows, over which the Narrows Bridge was builtā€¦
  16. Complete the sentence about Swan River with the correct year: The river was named Swarte Swaene-Revier by the Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh in ______, after the famous black swans of the area.
  17. Complete the sentence about Brisbane River with the correct year: John Oxley discovered the river in ______ and named it after the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane.
  18. Complete the sentence about Brisbane River with the correct year: From ______ the Brisbane River has been dredged for navigation purposes.
  19. Complete the sentence about Brisbane River with the correct year: The river served as an important carriageway between Brisbane and Ipswich before a railway linking the towns was built in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Brisbane River with the correct year: The Clem Jones Tunnel, opened in ______, is the river's first underground crossing for road transport.
  21. Complete the sentence about Brisbane River with the correct year: In ______, John Oxley named the river after the Governor Thomas Brisbane while surveying the area to locate a new penal settlement.
  22. Complete the sentence about Brisbane River with the correct year: The name is of Scottish origin, dating from at least ______, from their family lands at Rothiebrisbane, Aberdeenshire.
  23. Complete the sentence about Australian Alps with the correct year: After burning for a week through the Brindabella Ranges above Canberra, the fires entered the suburbs of the city on 18 January _____ā€¦
  24. Complete the sentence about Mount Kosciuszko with the correct year: In the presence of Macarthur he named the higher summit Mount Kosciusko after the Polish-Lithuanian military leader who died in ____ā€¦
  25. Complete the sentence about Mount Kosciuszko with the correct year: In ______, Austrian explorer Robert von Lendenfeld, guided by James M.
  26. Complete the sentence about Great Dividing Range with the correct year: After British colonisation in ______, the ranges were an obstacle to exploration and settlement by European settlers.
  27. Complete the sentence about Flinders Ranges with the correct year: In the winter of ______ Edward John Eyre, with five men, two drays and ten horses, further explored the region, setting out from Adelā€¦
  28. Complete the sentence about Tasmania with the correct year: The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the surrounding ______ islands.
  29. Complete the sentence about Tasmania with the correct year: In ______, Tasmania was permanently settled by Europeans as a penal settlement of the British Empire, partly to pre-empt French territorialā€¦
  30. Complete the sentence about Lord Howe Island with the correct year: The other continuing industry, tourism, began after World War II ended in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Norfolk Island with the correct year: East Polynesians were the first to settle Norfolk Island, but they had already departed when Great Britain settled it as part of its _ā€¦
  32. Complete the sentence about Norfolk Island with the correct year: On 8 June ______, permanent civilian residence on the island began when descendants of the Bounty mutineers were relocated from Pitcaiā€¦
  33. Complete the sentence about Norfolk Island with the correct year: The island was formally transferred from the United Kingdom to Australia in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Norfolk Island with the correct year: After the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in ______ halted penal transportation to the Thirteen Colonies, British prisons sā€¦
  35. Complete the sentence about Christmas Island with the correct year: The territory derives its name from its discovery on Christmas Day ______ by Captain William Mynors.
  36. Complete the sentence about Christmas Island with the correct year: The first European to sight Christmas Island was Richard Rowe of the Thomas in ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Christmas Island with the correct year: The Japanese invaded the island in ______ to secure its phosphate deposits.
  38. Complete the sentence about Christmas Island with the correct year: After the end of Japanese occupation, the island's administration was restored to Singapore, but it was transferred to Australia inā€¦
  39. Complete the sentence about Christmas Island with the correct year: The first European to sight the island was Richard Rowe of the Thomas in ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Christmas Island with the correct year: Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel Royal Mary named the island when he sailed past it on Christmas Day in _____ā€¦
  41. Complete the sentence about Cocos (Keeling) Islands with the correct year: The islands were discovered in ______ by the British sea captain William Keeling, but no settlement occurred until the earlyā€¦
  42. Complete the sentence about Cocos (Keeling) Islands with the correct year: The British annexed the islands in ______, and for the next century they were administered from either Ceylon or Singapore.
  43. Complete the sentence about Cocos (Keeling) Islands with the correct year: Cocos refers to the abundant coconut trees, while Keeling refers to William Keeling, who discovered the islands in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Macquarie Island with the correct year: Frederick Hasselborough, an Australian, discovered the uninhabited island on 11 July ______, while looking for new sealing grounds.
  45. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Richard Siddins and his crew were shipwrecked in Hasselborough Bay on 11 June ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Heard Island and McDonald Islands with the correct year: Heard Island was occupied by sealers until ______ and saw occasional scientific visits in the late 19th and early 2ā€¦
  47. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The territory was claimed by the United Kingdom and was then transferred to Australia in ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Australian Antarctic Territory with the correct year: Australia is an original signatory of the ______ Antarctic Treaty, under which all territorial claims are held in abeyā€¦
  49. Complete the sentence about Australian Antarctic Territory with the correct year: The Australian government contributed funds to the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of ______, led by the Australianā€¦
  50. Complete the sentence about Cradle Mountain with the correct year: The ______ census recorded a population of 66 for the state suburb of Cradle Mountain.
  51. Complete the sentence about Cradle Mountain with the correct year: Aboriginal Tasmanians were persecuted by the European settlers upon their arrival, and the last free Aboriginals in the area were seeā€¦
  52. Complete the sentence about Cradle Mountain with the correct year: A large expanse of King Billy pines were found by James Smith in ______, and the area was logged until the 1910s.
  53. Complete the sentence about Cradle Mountain with the correct year: In ______ fur trapper Bert Nichols blazed the Overland Track starting from Cradle Mountain and heading south to Lake St Clair.
  54. Complete the sentence about Wineglass Bay with the correct year: Founded in ______, it is Tasmania's oldest park, along with Mount Field National Park.
  55. Complete the sentence about Port Arthur, Tasmania with the correct year: In ______, the town was the scene of the Port Arthur massacre, the deadliest instance of mass murder in post-colonial Australiaā€¦
  56. Complete the sentence about Port Arthur, Tasmania with the correct year: The Port Arthur convict settlement was established in September ______ as a timber-getting camp, producing sawn logs for governā€¦
  57. Complete the sentence about Phillip Island with the correct year: In ______ Samuel Anderson established the third permanent settlement in what would be Victoria at the mainland site of Bass across theā€¦
  58. Complete the sentence about Wilsons Promontory with the correct year: The first European to see the promontory was George Bass in January ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Grampians National Park with the correct year: In ______, the explorer and Surveyor General of New South Wales Sir Thomas Mitchell named Gariwerd after the Grampian Mountaiā€¦
  60. Complete the sentence about Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park with the correct year: The location is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for natural and cultural landscape in ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park with the correct year: Uluru and Kata Tjuta were first mapped by Europeans during the expeditionary period made possible by the constructionā€¦
  62. Complete the sentence about Litchfield National Park with the correct year: The park was named after Frederick Henry Litchfield, a member of the Finniss Expedition that travelled from South Australiaā€¦
  63. Complete the sentence about Litchfield National Park with the correct year: The area which is now known as Litchfield National Park was first visited by Europeans in September ______, when Litchfieldā€¦
  64. Complete the sentence about Litchfield National Park with the correct year: In ______ Mt Tolmer became the site of the first tin mine and produced a continual supply of tin.
  65. Complete the sentence about Litchfield National Park with the correct year: Bamboo Creek's tin mining operation began at Makanbarr, A Mak Mak Marranunggu campsite, in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Carnarvon Gorge with the correct year: In ______ as part of the Q150 celebrations, the Carnarvon Gorge was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its role asā€¦
  67. Complete the sentence about Carnarvon Gorge with the correct year: Ludwig Leichhardt was the first European explorer to pass nearby and make note of the ranges, during his expedition to Port Essingtonā€¦
  68. Complete the sentence about Lamington National Park with the correct year: In ______ as part of the Q150 celebrations, the Lamington National Park was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queenslandā€¦
  69. Complete the sentence about Lamington National Park with the correct year: In ______ a survey of the Queensland/New South Wales border was conducted.
  70. Complete the sentence about Bay of Fires with the correct year: The bay was given its name in ______ by Captain Tobias Furneaux in Adventure, who saw the fires of Aboriginal people on the beaches.
  71. Complete the sentence about Bay of Fires with the correct year: In ______, it was named as the world's second best beach by CondƩ Nast.
  72. Complete the sentence about Magnetic Island with the correct year: In ______, the island was set aside as a quarantine station although it took another ten years for the proper facilities to be set upā€¦
  73. Complete the sentence about Magnetic Island with the correct year: In November ______ the Queensland Government accepted a tender from Leisner and Sparre to construct the quarantine station for Ā£3645.
  74. Complete the sentence about Magnetic Island with the correct year: In ______ Cyclone Sigma tore across the island and through Townsville.
  75. Complete the sentence with the correct year: After the completion of the bridges and dams, the dams were locked in September ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Parliament House, Canberra with the correct year: The current Parliament House was officially opened on 9 May ______ by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia.
  77. Complete the sentence about Parliament House, Canberra with the correct year: In ______, after much argument, the Parliament decided that the new capital would be in the southern part of New South Walā€¦
  78. Complete the sentence about Parliament House, Canberra with the correct year: The Commonwealth acquired control over the land in ______, but World War I intervened, and nothing was done for some yearsā€¦
  79. Complete the sentence about Australian War Memorial with the correct year: Plans to build a national war memorial and museum were initiated shortly after the First World War, with the AWM formally estā€¦
  80. Complete the sentence about Australian War Memorial with the correct year: Work on the Memorial Building progressed in the mid-1930s, and the AWM was officially opened to the public in ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Australian War Memorial with the correct year: In ______, the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier was installed inside the Memorial Building's Hall of Memory.
  82. Complete the sentence about Australian War Memorial with the correct year: The Australian War Records Section was formed in May ______ to ensure the preservation of records relating to the First Worldā€¦
  83. Complete the sentence about Melbourne Cricket Ground with the correct year: By ______ it had become a busy promenade for Melbourne residents.
  84. Complete the sentence about Royal Exhibition Building with the correct year: On 1 October ______, it was announced that Queen Elizabeth II had conferred the title of "Royal" to the Exhibition Buildingā€¦
  85. Complete the sentence about Flinders Street railway station with the correct year: The current station building was completed in ______ and is a cultural icon of Melbourne.
  86. Complete the sentence about Luna Park Sydney with the correct year: The park suddenly closed in mid-______ after the Ghost Train fire which killed six children and one adult.
  87. Complete the sentence about Taronga Zoo with the correct year: Inspired by a ______ visit to the Hamburg Zoo, the secretary of the zoo, Albert Sherbourne Le Souef, envisioned a new zoo based on the baā€¦
  88. Complete the sentence about Taronga Zoo with the correct year: The "Rustic Bridge" was opened in ______ and was one of Taronga Zoo's earliest landscape features.
  89. Complete the sentence about Queen Victoria Building with the correct year: The property is co-owned by the City of Sydney and Link REIT, and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register onā€¦
  90. Complete the sentence about Queen Victoria Building with the correct year: The site has been under the control of the council of the City of Sydney since ______, when Sydney Town was incorporated.
  91. Complete the sentence about Queen Victoria Building with the correct year: The building, on the "scale of a cathedral" was designed by George McRae, a Scottish architect who had emigrated to Sydney inā€¦
  92. Complete the sentence about Sydney Tower with the correct year: Designed by Australian architect Donald Crone, the first plans for Sydney Tower were unveiled in March ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Sydney Tower with the correct year: In June ______ the AMP banner was removed by helicopter from the tower and replaced by a large illuminated Westfield logo.
  94. Complete the sentence about Sydney Tower with the correct year: In ______, Merlin Entertainments acquired the rights to operate the observation deck, renaming the attraction the Sydney Tower Eye.
  95. Complete the sentence about Q1 with the correct year: Q1 Tower was designed by SDG & The Buchan Group, and its form was inspired by the Sydney ______ Olympic torch and the Sydney Opera House.
  96. Complete the sentence about Story Bridge with the correct year: In ______ Kangaroo Point was recommended by the Brisbane City Council's Cross River Commission.
  97. Complete the sentence about Story Bridge with the correct year: Before the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in ______ the Government of Queensland asked John Bradfield to design a new bridge in Brā€¦
  98. Complete the sentence about Adelaide Oval with the correct year: Construction of the Cricket Ground was completed by 31 August ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Adelaide Oval with the correct year: In ______, a grandstand, possibly designed by Wright & Reed Architects, and later renamed the George Giffen Stand, was opened to the puā€¦
  100. Complete the sentence about Hunter Valley with the correct year: The Hunter River itself was discovered, by accident, in ______ by British Lieutenant John Shortland as he searched for escaped convictsā€¦

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