Colony of Queensland

Queensland Colony
Colony of the United Kingdom
1859–1901
Flag Coat of arms
Light green: Queensland Green: Territory of Papua (annexed by Queensland in 1883) Dark grey: Other British possessions
Anthem
"God Save the Queen"
Capital	Brisbane
Government
• Type	Self-governing colony
Monarch
• 1859–1901	Victoria
Governor
• 1859–1868	George Bowen first
• 1896–1901	Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington last
Legislature	Parliament of Queensland
History
• Independence from the New South Wales colony	6 June 1859
• Federation of Australia	1 January 1901
Preceded by Succeeded by Colony of New South Wales Queensland British New Guinea
Today part of	Australia Papua New Guinea

The Colony of Queensland was a colony of the British Empire from 1859 to 1901, when it became a State in the federal Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. At its greatest extent, the colony included the present-day State of Queensland, the Territory of Papua and the Coral Sea Islands Territory.