Picture of Brisbane Australia is provided in this site to get a better idea about the capital city of Queensland. The most populous among other neighboring urbane and rural suburbs, Brisbane covers an area of 1326.8 square km, attaining the third largest city of the continent. Its close proximity to the Pacific Ocean, makes the climate a humid subtropical one with maximum yearly average temperature 25.5 degree centigrade and minimum yearly average temperature as 15.7 degree centigrade and mean rainfall of 1146.4 p.m. The climate made of hot, humid summers and dry, mild winters.
Brisbane lay beside the Brisbane River on the plains between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range of south-eastern Queensland. The exact location is 27°28'S, 153°02'E, in the backdrop of New Farm Park. On the east, lies the suburb of Moreton Bay; the urban area is dotted by large hills of Mount Coot-tha, Mount Gravatt, Whites Hill and Stephens Mountain. The busy central streets of the central business district are well planned and designed including Adelaide, Alice, Ann, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary. They run parallel to Queen Street and Queen Street Mall.
Brisbane also has an exotic nightlife beside a serene and calm riverside of River Brisbane. It is the home of white-collar industries in the sector of information technology, financial services, higher education and public sector administration. Inner suburbs emphasizes mainly on blue-collar industries including petroleum refining, stevedoring, paper milling.
Brisbane considered as the major business hubs hosts the headquarters of many International companies, viz., LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Alcan, Boeing, IBM and Red Hat, DHL Global who also have their oceanic distribution and warehouses, Asia Pacific Aerospace their headquarters.
Shopping freaks can give a hearty ride in the city with many shopping malls like Queen Street Mall with restaurants, souvenirs and shopping centres; Wintergarden, Queens Plaza, Brisbane Arcade and The Myer Centre. Four major shopping centres in Brisbane suburbs are Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mt Gravatt and Carindale. Brisbane has a thriving live music scene, museums and theatres, performing arts and creative arts in the urban and inner suburbs.
Brisbane has also been a center for many sports events and activities. Their active participation led to the winning in the bid for hosting 1982 Commonwealth Games, 1988 World's Fair, as well as the Goodwill Games in 2001. the city is also scheduled to organize a grand inaugural for Premier Peter Beattie in 2020 or 2024 Olympic Games.
The well architected Brisbane is extensively interconnected with rail roads, pedestrian and cyclist pathways, tramways, and inter city trains. CityCat catamaran ferry on the Brisbane River.
bus, rail and ferry services (Queen Street Bus Station, Roma Street and Central railway stations), CityTrain urban rail network consisting of 10 suburban lines. The network is well meshed with several freeways that links Riverside Expressway, Captain Cook Bridge and Victoria Bridge Brisbane is served by. The city has two airports. Brisbane Airport and Archerfield Airport.
The sewage and drainage system is excellent served by three dams - Wivenhoe, Somerset and North Pine; Electricity and Gas in Brisbane are handled by Energex; DSL telephone exchanges is a statewide Queensland. Cable is provided and serviced by Telstra and Optus. In addition, Hutchinson, Telstra, Optus and Vodafone serves as the citywide phone network.
