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City Botanic Gardens

The City Botanic Gardens (formerly the Brisbane Botanic Gardens) is a heritage-listed botanic garden on Alice Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was also known as Queen's Park. It is located on Gardens Point in the Brisbane CBD and is bordered by the Brisbane River, Alice Street, George Street, Parliament House and Queensland University of Technology's Gardens Point campus. It was established in 1825 as a farm for the Moreton Bay penal settlement.
The Gardens include Brisbane's most mature gardens, with many rare and unusual botanic species. In particular the Gardens feature a special collection of cycads, palms, figs and bamboo.
The City Botanic Gardens was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 3 February 1997. The Queensland Heritage Register describes the Gardens as "the most significant, non-Aboriginal cultural landscape in Queensland, having a continuous horticultural history since 1828, without any significant loss of land area or change in use over that time. It remains the premier public park and recreational facility for the capital of Queensland, which role it has performed since the early 1840s."
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- Country: Australia
- City: Queensland
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- Global Ranking Score (Higher is Better): 11589
Nearby schools:
- Brisbane Central Technical College
- Brisbane Graduate School Of Business
- Queensland University Of Technology
- Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
- Queensland College Of Art And Design
- Somerville House
- Brisbane State High School
- St James College, Brisbane
- Australian Industry Trade College Brisbane
- East Brisbane State School
- All Hallows' School
- Brisbane Central State School
- Ies College
- Holy Spirit School
- Brisbane Girls Grammar School
- Dutton Park State School
- Baroona Special School
- Angelorum College
- Brisbane Grammar School
- New Farm State School