The top 150 Icons in Queensland

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TOP 150 ICONS





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CATEGORY 1: State-shapers

Queenslanders or Queensland organisations that have influenced or made a significant contribution to Queensland.


1 Yungaba Immigration Centre

2 Steve Irwin

3 Surf Lifesavers

4 Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen

5 Leslie Thiess

6 Founders of QANTAS

7 Clem Jones

8 Eddie Mabo

9 State Emergency Service

10 John Flynn

11 Charles Kingsford Smith

12 James Cook

13 Royal Agricultural Society of Queensland

14 Isolated Children's Parents Association

15 Wayne Bennett

CATEGORY 2: Influential artists

Those musicians, authors, actors, painters, designers, or pieces of art from Queensland that have left a lasting impression on the people of our State.


1 Bee Gees

2 Powderfinger

3 Geoffrey Rush

4 Keith Urban

5 Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)

6 Steele Rudd

7 Judith Wright

8 Billy Thorpe

9 Hugh Lunn

10 Savage Garden

11 Gladys Moncrieff

12 Graeme Connors

13 William McInnes

14 David Malouf

15 Charles Chauvel

CATEGORY 3: Sports legends

Those Queensland greats that have made a significant contribution to sport in our State.


1 Wally Lewis

2 Cathy Freeman

3 Pat Rafter

4 Rod Laver

5 Allan Border

6 Greg Norman

7 Susie O'Neill

8 Dick Johnson

9 Allan (Alfie) Langer

10 Gunsynd

11 Mal Meninga

12 Grant Hackett

13 Matthew Hayden

14 Kieren Perkins

15 Mick Doohan

CATEGORY 4: Locations

The towns, parks, recreation attractions in Queensland that put our State on the map.


1 Australia Zoo (Sunshine Coast Hinterland)

2 Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame (Longreach)

3 Surfers Paradise

4 Bundaberg Rum Distillery

5 Big Pineapple (Nambour)

6 South Bank Parklands (Brisbane)

7 Noosa

8 Breakfast Creek Hotel (Brisbane)

9 Yatala Pie Shop

10 Barcaldine Tree of Knowledge

11 Paronella Park (North Queensland)

12 Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary (Brisbane)

13 Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary (Gold Coast)

14 Great Dividing Range

15 Darling Downs

CATEGORY 5: Natural attractions

Those iconic locations in Queensland that are naturally formed.


1 Great Barrier Reef

2 Fraser Island

3 Glasshouse Mountains

4 Whitsundays

5 Daintree Rainforest

6 Outback Queensland

7 Carnarvon Gorge

8 Stradbroke Island

9 Lamington National Park

10 Bunya Mountains

11 Moreton Bay

12 Barron Falls

13 Springbrook National Park

14 Magnetic Island

15 Undara Lava Tubes

CATEGORY 6: Structures and engineering feats

Those built structures in Queensland.


1 Story Bridge (Brisbane)

2 Kuranda Scenic Railway (Cairns)

3 XXXX Brewery (Brisbane)

4 Brisbane City Hall

5 Skyrail Rainforest Cable (Cairns)

6 Gateway Bridge (Brisbane)

7 Suncorp Stadium (Lang Park)

8 Q1 (Gold Coast)

9 The Gabba (Brisbane)

10 The University of Queensland Great Court

11 St John's Cathedral (Brisbane)

12 Old Museum (Brisbane)

13 QANTAS Hangars (Longreach and Cloncurry)

14 Hornibrook Highway Bridge (Redcliffe)

15 Burdekin Falls Dam

CATEGORY 7: Defining moments

Those memorable moments from our State’s past, moments that highlight our triumphs and our hardships.



1 World Expo '88

2 1974 Queensland floods

3 QANTAS takes to the air

4 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games

5 Mabo High Court of Australia decision

6 Fitzgerald Inquiry (1987-89)

7 Queensland proclaimed as a new colony

8 Gold discovered in Queensland

9 World Heritage listing of the Wet Tropics

10 Queensland wins its first Sheffield Shield (1995)

11 Cloudland and the Bellevue Hotel demolished

12 Queensland the first with free education

13 Australia's first Aboriginal Parliamentarians

14 All chained up for women's rights (1965 at Regatta Hotel)

15 Railway comes to Queensland (1865)

CATEGORY 8: Innovations and inventions

Inventions or innovative concepts that Queenslanders have pioneered.


1 Royal Flying Doctor Service

2 Cervical cancer vaccination (Professor Ian Frazer)

3 Polio treatment

4 Blue Care (formerly Blue Nurses)

5 School of the Air

6 Billabong

7 Lamington

8 Kids Alive - Do the Five

9 Lucas' Pawpaw Ointment

10 Weis Fruit Bar

11 Immune system research wins Nobel Prize

12 Southern Cross windmills

13 Tilt train

14 Dingo fence

15 wotif.com.au

CATEGORY 9: Events and festivals

Those iconic Queensland events that bring Queenslanders together to celebrate.


1 EkkA (Brisbane)

2 State of Origin

3 Birdsville Races

4 Riverfire (Riverfestival)

5 Woodford Folk Festival

6 Carnival of Flowers (Toowoomba)

7 Country Music Muster (Gympie)

8 Indy (Gold Coast)

9 Apple and Grape Harvest Festival (Stanthorpe)

10 B&S Balls

11 Beef Australia (Rockhampton)

12 Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race

13 Mount Isa Rodeo

14 Panyiri Greek Festival (Brisbane)

15 Noosa Triathalon

CATEGORY 10: Typically Queensland

What is Queensland all about? Those things, behaviours or traditions that define Queensland and its people.


1 Backyard BBQs

2 Queenslander house

3 XXXX Beer

4 Bundy Rum (and bear)

5 Sunshine

6 Bowen mango

7 Summer afternoon storms

8 "Waltzing Matilda"

9 Macadamia nut

10 Maroon

11 Jacaranda tree

12 Cane fields

13 Cane toad

14 Thongs

15 Mud crab

 

[GumbyLearner]

They left out Gerry Connolly

 

[Soft Dough]

The List is too politically correct.

Pauline hanson should be on there before wayne bennett ( not saying she was a good thing, but she surely was influential in many different ways)

 

[Timmy]

Where's Garpal Gumnut?

 

[GumbyLearner]

I notice that the disgraced (the no longer Sir) Terry Lewis isn't on the list.

 

[jono1887]

The List is too politically correct.

Pauline hanson should be on there before wayne bennett ( not saying she was a good thing, but she surely was influential in many different ways)

should Pauline Hanson really be on that list... its meant to be of aussie icons, not aussie disgraces :

 

[white_crane]

I notice that the disgraced (the no longer Sir) Terry Lewis isn't on the list.

But the puppet master Sir Joh is.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

What about the crocodile guy, the one who got done in by the ray.

Whats his name?

gg

 

[jono1887]

What about the crocodile guy, the one who got done in by the ray.

Whats his name?

gg

Steve Irwin... he's on the list

 

[Timmy]

The road to Sydney.

 

[son of baglimit]

that national party jury member who got joh off the charges.

the sooner joh and his government are formally recognised as corrupt in that state the better.

 

[Trevor_S]

I live in QLD and was born here, and disagree with a lot of those lists... and in particular category 5. I mean anyone that has truly been into the Simpson Desert, and camped there overnight and ... never mind back to tourist mediocrity

 

[jono1887]

Why is the XXXX Brewery such a structural and engineering feat? how is any different to any other brewery other than the fact that its in qld?? :

 

[So_Cynical]

that national party jury member who got joh off the charges.

Luke Shaw was his name...just spent 10 minutes Googling him and he seems to of slipped off the radar.

 

[GumbyLearner]

The road to Sydney.

The bitumen to Joh's peanut farm would have to rank higher than that!

 

[Timmy]

Don't know what this is all about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjacDMLBk6A&feature=topvideos

 

[Solly]

Don't know what this is all about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjacDMLBk6A&feature=topvideos

Timmy this is how it is supposed to be............

http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2009/08/27/60731_local-news.html

 

[basilio]

Thought this old thread was appropriate for this story.
The repairs to an exact replica of the Southern Cross aeroplane flown by Charles Kingsford Smith have been completed. Its a long story but quite fascinating.

Great one for the sites engineers and tinkers.

Charles Kingsford Smith's Southern Cross replica aircraft flies again after 12-year refurbishment​

ABC Illawarra
/ By Justin Huntsdale
Posted 8h ago8 hours ago

Southern Cross replica flies again after a lengthy restoration process.(Supplied: Historical Aircraft Restoration Society)

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A replica of the Southern Cross, the first plane to fly from the United States to Australia, is officially flying again after more than ten years of delicate repairs and refurbishments.

Key points:​

• The Southern Cross replica aircraft has made its first flight in more than 21 years
• The plane is regarded as the world's largest flying replica of the aircraft
• Charles Kingsford Smith piloted the first transpacific flight from the Australia to the US in 1928

It is the world's largest exact flying replica of the aircraft and was built in the 1980s to tour the country and give people an insight into a by-gone era of aviation.

The original Southern Cross, a Fokker FV11B, was flown by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, Harry Lyon and James Warner on the first transpacific flight from the United States to Australia in 1928.

The replica was damaged in 2002 and chief engineer Jim Thurstan has been part of a team bringing it back to its former glory.
"There are about 13 of us on the Southern Cross team and we've drawn on people with aviation backgrounds, people from the University of Wollongong, and tradespeople. It's been wonderful," he said.

"It flew from 1987, 560 flight hours, and went to New Zealand once.
"It's exactly the same size as the original aircraft but it has different engines that are a little bit more powerful."

World's largest flying replica of Kingsford Smith's Southern Cross airborne again after 12-year repair job

An exact replica of arguably Australia's most significant aircraft has flown again after more than a decade of delicate repairs and refurbishment.

www.abc.net.au

Fokker F.VII - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[basilio]

About Charles Kingsford Smith. Worth checking out if only to see how the pilots did an oil change on the motors , 12 times - while the plane was in mid air. Check the third link

The Pioneers : An Anthology : Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith (1897-1935)

web.archive.org

Smithy, May 1935

web.archive.org

http://www.airborne.org/flying/smithy2.htm