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Descriptor English: Queensland
Descriptor Spanish: Queensland
Descriptor Queensland
Scope note: Estado situado en el nordeste de Australia. Su capital es Brisbane. Sus costas fueron visitadas por vez primera por el Capitán Cook en 1770 y su primer asentamiento (penal) se localizó en la Bahía Moreton en 1824. Inicialmente se propuso para este territorio el nombre Cooksland pero prevaleció el nombre en honor a la reina Victoria. (Traducción libre del original: Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p996 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p441).
Descriptor Portuguese: Queensland
Descriptor French: Queensland
Tree number(s): Z01.639.100.937
Z01.678.100.373.937
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011793
Scope note: A state in northeastern Australia. Its capital is Brisbane. Its coast was first visited by Captain Cook in 1770 and its first settlement (penal) was located on Moreton Bay in 1824. The name Cooksland was first proposed but honor to Queen Victoria prevailed. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p996 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p441)
Annotation: a state of Australia
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
Previous Indexing: Australia (1966-1987)
History Note: 88
DeCS ID: 22977
Unique ID: D011793
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1988/01/01
Date of Entry: 1987/03/09
Revision Date: 2015/06/23
Queensland - Preferred
Concept UI M0018326
Scope note A state in northeastern Australia. Its capital is Brisbane. Its coast was first visited by Captain Cook in 1770 and its first settlement (penal) was located on Moreton Bay in 1824. The name Cooksland was first proposed but honor to Queen Victoria prevailed. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p996 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p441)
Preferred term Queensland



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