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Queensland

Introduction

Queensland covers an area of 1,727,200 sq km, has a coastline of 7,400 km, and comprises 22.48% of the total area of Australia. It is Australia's second largest state. In 1824, troops and convicts arrived at Redcliffe, but the hostility of the Aboriginals caused them to move south and they settled at the present site of Brisbane. On the 10th of December, 1859, the state of Queensland was proclaimed.

The climate of the state ranges from monsoonal downpours in the north, to tropical in the south-east, to hot and dry in the west and south-west. Cairns has a maximum temperature of about 25-33 degrees all year round with minimums rarely below 20 degrees. Brisbane's maximums are rarely below 20 degrees, peaking around 30 degrees from November to February. Tully, aproximately 225 km north of Townsville, is Australia's wettest town with an average annual rainfall of 4490 mm. Birdsville in the south-west of the state, near the South Australian border, averages 150 mm annually.

As well as fertile land which produces grain, sugar, dairy produce, wool, lamb, beef, cotton, peanuts and timber, Queensland is rich in minerals. The Mount Isa mining complex in the west of the State produces copper, lead and zinc. Tourism is another very important industry to the state's economy. Running down the Queensland coast is the world's largest and most famous coral formation, The Great Barrier Reef. The reef is over 1,200 km in length and stretches from the West Papuan coast to east of Gladstone. The State has 330 national parks which cover more than 27,000 sq km. The Bunya Mountains, Carnarvon Gorge, part of Fraser Island and large areas of Cape York Peninsula are designated parks.

The figures reported here are a subset of the Agricultural Census data from 1982/1983 to 1996/1997 published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, AgStats). The data has been analysed by the Bureau of Rural Sciences using a consistent geographic base. Further information about the data is available from the Australian Spatial Data Directory

Select one of the following Statistical Divisions to view information for that region:

The figures and text are reproduced with permission of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, © Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Statistics

Area of region (ha): 172,765,558.70

Area

Agroforestry

Apples

Berry Fruit

Cattle and Calves

Cereals excluding Rice

Citrus

Cotton

Grapes

Legumes

Nuts

Oilseeds

Other Livestock

Other Non-Cereal Crops

Other Vegetables

Pastures

Pears

Pigs

Plantation Fruit

Potatoes

Poultry

Sales of Livestock

Sheep and Lambs

Stone Fruit

Sugar Cane

Further information

Please Note: Not all the selected data items are available for every year or for every statistical region.

The figures reported here are a subset of the Agricultural Census data from 1982/1983 to 1996/1997 published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, AgStats). The data have been analysed by Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia to report them using a consistent geographic base. Further information about the data is available through the Australian Spatial Data Directory.

The subset includes 436 data items for plant production and 40 data items for livestock which were commonly available in the AgStats database over the 15 year period and each year for respondents having an Estimated Value of Agricultural Operations (EVAO) above the cut-off of $22,500.

The data have been concorded by bringing data collected using different geographies to a consistent geographic base, being Version 2.6 Statistical Local Area (SLA) boundaries (ABS, 1996) and using the non-agricultural lands mask from the National Land and Water Resources Audit's National Landuse Map (1996/1997).

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