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Queensland (locally /ˈkwiːnzlænd/ KWEENZ-land, commonly abbreviated as QLD) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south, respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and the Pacific Ocean; to the state's north is the Torres Strait, separating the Australian mainland from Papua New Guinea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north-west. With an area of 1,723,030 square kilometres (665,270 sq mi), Queensland is the world's sixth-largest subdivision of any country on earth; it is larger than all but 16 countries. Due to its size, Queensland's geographical features and climates are diverse, and include tropical rainforests, rivers, coral reefs, mountain ranges and white sandy beaches in its tropical and sub-tropical coastal regions, as well as deserts and savanna in the semi-arid and desert climatic regions of its interior.

Queensland has a population of over 5.5 million, concentrated in South East Queensland, where nearly three in four reside. The capital and largest city in the state is Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city and comprising fully half of the state's population. Ten of Australia's thirty largest cities are located in Queensland, the largest outside Brisbane being the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Townsville, Cairns, Ipswich, and Toowoomba. 24.2% of the state's population were born overseas. The state has the highest inter-state net migration in Australia. (Full article...)

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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of roughly 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for 2,600 kilometres (1,616 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia.

The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. The Great Barrier Reef supports a wide diversity of life, and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN has labelled it one of the seven natural wonders of the world, and the Queensland National Trust has named it a state icon of Queensland. A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as overfishing and tourism

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Image 1The Mossman River, flowing through the Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 2Kanaka workers in a sugar cane plantation, late 19th century (from Queensland)
Image 3Aftermath of the 1861 Cullin-La-Ringo massacre in which 19 settlers were killed by Aboriginal people, the deadliest attack on settlers in the frontier wars (from Queensland)
Image 4The Gold Coast, Queensland's second-largest city and a major tourist destination (from Queensland)
Image 5The Great Barrier Reef, which extends along most of Queensland's Coral Sea coastline (from Queensland)
Image 6Captain James Cook claims the east coast of Australia for the Kingdom of Great Britain at Possession Island in 1770 (from Queensland)
Image 7Gold mine at Ravenswood in North Queensland. Mining is one of the state's major industries (from Queensland)
Image 8Fighting between Burke and Wills's supply party and Aboriginal Australians at Bulla in 1861 (from Queensland)
Image 9Returned World War II soldiers march in Queen Street, Brisbane, 1944 (from Queensland)
Image 10Commonly designated regions of Queensland, with Central Queensland divided into Mackay and Fitzroy subregions (from Queensland)
Image 11Parliament House, seat of the Queensland Parliament (from Queensland)
Image 12The McPherson Range at Lamington National Park in South East Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 13Sheep shearers and farm hands at Jondaryan Woolshed, c. 1872 (from Queensland)
Image 14Brisbane, capital and most populous city of Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 15The Great Court at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Queensland's oldest university (from Queensland)
Image 16Hill Inlet at the Whitsunday Islands. (from Queensland)
Image 17Skyline of the Brisbane central business district. Brisbane is a global city and the state's largest economic hub. (from Queensland)
Image 18Blackbirded South Sea Islanders on a Sugarcane plantation in Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 19Queen Elizabeth II visited Brisbane in October 1982 for the Commonwealth Games (from Queensland)
Image 20Köppen climate types in Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 21Parade of troops in Brisbane, prior to departure for the Boer War in South Africa (from Queensland)
Image 22The Ekka (the Royal Queensland Exhibition) is held each August at the Brisbane Showgrounds. (from Queensland)
Image 23Cricket game at The Gabba, a 42,000-seat round stadium in Brisbane (from Queensland)
Image 24The peninsula of Seventeen Seventy, Queensland, where Captain Cook landed in 1770 (from Queensland)
Image 25Lake McKensie, K'gari (Fraser Island) (from Queensland)
Image 26Government House, seat of the Governor (from Queensland)
Image 27Noosa Heads on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland's third largest city and a major tourist destination (from Queensland)
Image 28Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law, headquarters of the Supreme Court of Queensland and District Court of Queensland (from Queensland)

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Macarthur Coal is a mining company based in Queensland, Australia, which was incorporated in October 1995. The company was founded by Ken Talbot, who was a former chief executive officer. It specialises in the production of metallurgical coal from mines in the Bowen Basin, specifically low-volatile pulverised injection coal used in steel making; essentially all the coal it produces is exported from Australia.

The company maintains a 73.3% ownership in all its major mine projects. As of 2010 it had open-cast mines at Coppabella, where the first coal was mined in October 1998, and 2.4 million tonnes of coal was produced from 2.9 million tonnes of material mined in 2009, and Moorvale (first coal March 2003, 2.2 million tonnes of coal from 2.9 million tonnes of material), and was opening a third mine at Middlemount with an initial target of 1.8 million tonnes of material per year. A fourth mine at Codrilla was selected for development in 2011.

In May 2011, the company announced that it had increased coal reserves estimates by 38% to 2.26 billion tonnes. (Full article...)

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Did you know (auto-generated)

... that Lachlan Murdoch was forced to resign as a director of Prime Media Group because the company owned a radio station on Queensland's Sunshine Coast?
... that in its two years of existence, the Hunter River Railway Company initiated construction on what would eventually become the Great Northern Railway connecting Sydney to Queensland?

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...that Innisfail (pictured) was once named Geraldton but in 1910 was renamed to avoid confusion with the town of the same name in Western Australia?
...that the BuzzSaw SkyLoop roller coaster features the tallest inversion in the Southern Hemisphere and the second highest inversion worldwide of its type?
...that the clock in the South Brisbane Town Hall, installed in 1904, was the first electrically-driven clock in Australia?
...that LGBT rights in Queensland were advanced when civil partnerships became legal for same-sex couples from 23 February 2012?

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