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* September 13, 1824 – With his crew and 29 convicts aboard the Amity, John Oxley arrives at and founds the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement at what is now Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia, after leaving Sydney.

* September 13 – With his crew and 29 convicts aboard the Amity, John Oxley arrives at and founds the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement at what is now Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia, after leaving Sydney.

The Brisbane River is the longest river in south east Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay.

The penal colony of Moreton Bay later adopted the same name.

All the native fig trees of the American continent are hermaphrodites, as well as species like Indian Banyan ( F. benghalensis ), Weeping Fig ( F. benjamina ), Indian Rubber Plant ( F. elastica ), Fiddle-leaved Fig ( F. lyrata ), Moreton Bay Fig ( F. macrophylla ), Chinese Banyan ( F. microcarpa ), Sacred Fig ( F. religiosa ) and Sycamore Fig ( F. sycomorus ).

* Ficus watkinsiana – Watkins ' Fig, Nipple Fig, Green-leaved Moreton Bay Fig

* Santa Barbara's Moreton Bay Fig Tree – a F. macrophylla

Escaped convicts from the Moreton Bay penal settlement hid in the region.

Most canals are extensions to the Nerang River, but there are more to the south along Tallebudgera Creek and Currumbin Creek and to the north along the Gold Coast Broadwater, South Stradbroke Island, Coomera River and southern Moreton Bay.

It is also the only sirenian in its range, which spans the waters of at least 37 countries throughout the Indo-Pacific, though the majority of dugongs live in the northern waters of Australia between Shark Bay and Moreton Bay.

One of the lineages stretches all the way from Moreton Bay to Western Australia, while the other only stretches from Moreton Bay to the Northern Territory.

Australia is home to the largest population, stretching from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Moreton Bay in Queensland.

Large bays facing north on the Queensland coast provide significant habitats for dugong, with the southernmost of these being Hervey Bay and Moreton Bay.

In Moreton Bay, dugongs often travel between foraging grounds inside the bay and warmer oceanic waters.

Typical dugong feeding area in Moreton Bay

Dugongs in Moreton Bay, Australia, are omnivorous, feeding on invertebrates such as polychaetes or marine algae when the supply of their choice grasses decreases.

Australian cuisine features Australian seafood such as: Southern bluefin tuna, King George whiting, Moreton Bay bug, Mud Crab, Jew Fish, Dhufish ( Western Australia ) and Yabby.

These areas are characterized by dense groves of very large trees including the iconic Port Jackson Fig ( Ficus rubiginosa ) and Moreton Bay Fig ( Ficus macrophylla ) trees.

The Moreton Bay Fig ( Ficus macrophylla ) is endemic to the east coast of Australia within a range centred on Moreton Bay.

Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay Fig, is a large evergreen banyan tree of the Moraceae family that is a native of most of the eastern coast of Australia, from the Atherton Tableland ( 17 ° S ) in the north to the Illawarra ( 34 ° S ) in New South Wales, and Lord Howe Island.

The generally used common name is Moreton Bay Fig, after Moreton Bay in southern Queensland, although it is found elsewhere.

The Moreton Bay Fig is an evergreen tree that can reach heights of 60 m ( 200 ft ).

The Moreton Bay Fig is a native of most of the eastern coast, from the Atherton Tableland ( 17 ° S ) in north Queensland, to the Shoalhaven River ( 34 ° S ) on New South Wales south coast.

A young Moreton Bay Fig starts life as an epiphyte in an Auckland, New Zealand park

The Moreton Bay Fig has been found growing on both native and introduced trees in New Zealand and in Hawaii.

The Moreton Bay Fig has been widely used in public parks in frost-free areas, and was popular with early settlers of Australia.

Although their root buttressing is a potential feature, the Moreton Bay Fig is poorly suited to bonsai as their large leaves do not reduce much in size and they have long internodal growth.

Large specimens of Moreton Bay Fig Trees are found in many parks and properties throughout eastern and north-eastern Australia.

Currently the tallest Moreton Bay Fig is found on a cattle farm near Egg Rock in the Numinbah valley of Queensland and measured 49 metres ( 161 feet ) in 2006.

Records show that the tortoises were donated to the Botanic Gardens in 1860 when Wickham retired as Government Resident of Moreton Bay ( now Brisbane ) and left Australia for Paris.

The Gardens were also the home for over 100 years for ' Harriet ', a tortoise reportedly collected by Charles Darwin during his visit to the Galápagos Islands in 1835 and donated to the Gardens in 1860 by John Clements Wickham, former commander of the HMS Beagle and later ' Government Resident ' for Moreton Bay.

The active regions involve all the phenomena directly linked to the magnetic field, which occur at different heights on the Sun's surface: sunspots and faculae, happening in the photosphere, spicules, Hα filaments and plages in the chromosphere, prominences in the chromosphere and transition region, and flares and coronal mass ejections happening in the corona and chromosphere, but if flares are very violent can perturb also the photosphere and generate a Moreton wave, as described by Uchida.

It forms part of the Moreton Bay and Pumicestone Passage Important Bird Area, so identified by BirdLife International because it supports large numbers of migratory waders, or shorebirds.

He lost his seat in the following December 1910 election, but soon afterwards rejoined the O ' Brienites, O ’ Brien providing the 1911 north-east Cork by-election vacancy created by the retirement of Moreton Frewen.

The first PPTP implementation was developed by Matthew Ramsay in 1999 and initially distributed under the GNU GPL by Moreton Bay.

The Moreton Bay area was initially explored by Matthew Flinders.

In 1823, Governor of New South Wales, Thomas Brisbane, instructed that a new northern penal settlement be developed, and an exploration party led by John Oxley further explored Moreton Bay.

The waters of Moreton Bay are a popular destination for recreational anglers and are used by commercial operators who provide seafood to market.

Moreton Bay ( Aboriginal name-Quandamooka ) and its islands were inhabited by Aboriginal tribes.

Cook gave the name only to the bight formed by the northern end of Stradbroke Island ( in 1770, there was only one island ) and the eastern side of Moreton Island.

Recreational fishing is a big part of the bay's history and there is an annual Moreton Bay Classic fishing competition run by Brisbane Fishing Online held from the Manly foreshore.

Collectively, around 50, 000 wading birds visit the Moreton Bay each year, and its wetlands are classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ).

The 15th century Church of England parish church of Saint Edmund is said to have been built by two maiden ladies of the Pever family, whence the name " Maids ' Moreton ".

The Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a Distance of Upwards of 3000 Miles, During the Years 1844 and 1845 by Leichhardt describes this expedition.

Soon afterward, on 24 May, the Royal Geographical Society, London, awarded Leichhardt its Patron's Medal as recognition of ' the increased knowledge of the great continent of Australia ' gained by his Moreton Bay-Port Essington journey.

Moreton Hall, a Grade II * listed building by Robert Adam, now houses the Moreton Hall Preparatory School.

In 1803, Van Diemen's Land ( Tasmania ) was also settled as a penal colony, followed by the Moreton Bay Settlement ( Queensland ) in 1824.

In 1824 Oxley, accompanied by Allan Cunningham, discovered the Brisbane River and Bremer River on Moreton Bay, which has since developed into the city of Brisbane.

The area was first explored by European colonists in 1826, when Captain Patrick Logan, Commandant of the Moreton Bay penal colony, sailed up the Brisbane River and discovered large deposits of limestone and other minerals.

There had been shows staged by the Ipswich and West Moreton Horticultural and Agricultural Society as early as 1868.

The course suggested will be almost in a direct line, from my knowledge of the land …. On the back part of the Island is a muddy creek and the distance of the Island to Boston is not so great by one third, I presume as it is from Chelsea to Moreton Point in Charlestown ....

Moreton means " Farmstead on the Moor " and " in Marsh " is from henne and mersh meaning a marsh used by birds such as moorhens.