Green: Territory of Papua (annexed by Queensland in 1883)
Dark grey: Other British possessions
Anthem
"God Save the Queen"
Capital
Brisbane
Government
• Type
Self-governing colony
Monarch
• 1859–1901
Victoria
Governor
• 1859–1868
George Bowen first
• 1896–1901
Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington last
Legislature
Parliament of Queensland
History
• Independence from the New South Wales colony
6 June 1859
• Federation of Australia
1 January 1901
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Colony of New South Wales
Queensland
Territory of Papua
Today part of
Australia
Papua New Guinea
The Colony of Queensland was a colony of the British Empire from 1859 to 1901, when it became a State in the federal Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. At its greatest extent, the colony included the present-day State of Queensland, the Territory of Papua and the Coral Sea Islands Territory.
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