Place:Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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NameFortitude Valley
Typeinhabited place
Coordinates27.456667°S 153.036944°E
Located inBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
source: Family History Library Catalog

Name and boundaries approved by Queensland Place Names Board 11 August 1975. Named after immigrant sailing vessel Fortitude, one of three vessels chartered by John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878) clergyman and politician, to carry free immigrants from Scotland to Moreton Bay in 1849. Refer J.D. Lang. Queensland, Australia. London,1861. Source : The State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Resource Management) 2010

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