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[edit] Misc

The article's a good starting point. However, there's a lot more that can be added: history (1974 Floods), the drainage area, the big dams (Somerset and Wivenhoe), and the wildlife. Maybe a little bit about land use. - Peter Murphy

  • Also worth mentioning the sea port, old wharves in the city and at Newstead. current transport (ferries, citycat) and recreational (rowing, tour and restaurnat boats) uses. In land uses it is also worth mentioning suburbs, significant buildings and institutions along the river: Qniversity of Qld, the CBD, QUT, Botanic Gardens, riverside expressway, customs house, kangaroo point cliffs, powerhouse arts centre, regatta hotel, the dairy factory, Queensland State Gallery, Museum, Southbank.

I hope to find the time write it up soon, but if somebody beats me to it that's fine. Adz 13:53, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Don't forget the old wharves where Southbank is now. They were there until the 1960s. Also the coal wharves on the south side where the Capt Cook Bridge is now. They went about the same time 136.153.2.2 09:26, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Are the unnamed railway bridge and the Albert Bridge, Brisbane actually the same bridge? - Shiftchange 02:22, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

No, they are two separate bridges, the second rail bridge was built when the line was quadruplicated in the 1950s. The Albert Bridge dates from 1890s 136.153.2.2 09:26, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps this article has far too many pictures, it seems quite cluttered. Aggelophoros 07:04, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I just made the images a little bit smaller and that seems to fix the cluttered problem. Perhaps we could have a gallery for the bridge pictures just after the bridges sections. A little like this:

Gateway Bridge towards the mouth of the river

Story Bridge as seen from the Eagle Street Pier

Goodwill Bridge and CityCat catamaran ferries

I'm not completely sure about this idea though. Aggelophoros 07:22, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

To make the article look better, after your resizing of the photos, I reverted to the previous edit to bring back all the photos to their previous size, then resized the two photos of Brisbane River, so that they would be of an identical size again. I removed the other photos because they are not only of the river. Figaro 06:43, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
The article looks much better now. Good job! Aggelophoros 09:40, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure why most of the photos were removed from this article. It looked better before, I don't think it looked cluttered. Maybe some of the images that were removed could go back on the left side. - Shiftchange 10:16, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
I have returned the photo of the river which I removed, and positioned the photo, plus the second of the photos which remained, into new positions on the page.
I have also created a new page for the Brisbane bridges, called Bridges of Brisbane, where photos of all the bridges mentioned are now displayed in their own photo gallery section of the page. Figaro 04:16, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Really well done, thanks for the attention, the new bridges page looks great. - Shiftchange 17:17, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Grretings felow Brisvegans! Added a section on KP and added a bit of knowledge re: the floods, and the environment.Rolinator 14:41, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I have put most (but not all) of the information onto the Kangaroo Point Cliffs page. I have left the information which is specifically about the Kangaroo Point Cliffs' significance to the Brisbane River. Figaro 06:37, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

The quarrying operation ceased (when? anyone?) and the area was converted to a park (when?).

I have provided details about when quarrying started, next visit to the State Library I will try to find out when it finished also the Brisbane City Council Archives at Wandoo st in the Valley are worth checking for more info --Matt 03:46, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brisbane River category

Should there be a category for the Brisbane River - to include bridges, dams, suburbs, boats etc on/next to the river? --RobBrisbane 02:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map added

I added a map I created, so I will proceed to remove the map request.

MagpieShooter 04:41, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Could this page please be protected against the repeated vandalism against it. Thanks. Figaro 23:04, 28 May 2007 (UTC)