Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Brisbane" in English language version.
The city of Brisbane, Queensland's capital since 1859, was founded as a convict settlement in 1824, and it and its river were named for the governor at the suggestion of the explorer Oxley, the first European to survey the area.
It was then that he named the river after Sir Brisbane, the Governor of NSW.
In 1843, [ Ludwig Leichhardt ] was given two names: Makandschin from an original Brisbane man and Megandsin from an original speaker from a different country... Meston listed Magoo-jin then Magandjin, based on Magan, the name of the Tulipwood tree, from elderly Goori [Aboriginal] speakers who asserted they were 'Brisbane natives'... From a Goori knowledge base the names based on the Tulipwood tree fits best for the original Goori name. The suffix -djin indicates plural, e.g. people, district, river. The Migan-dar-gu-n (Mi'andjan) version describes the use of a sharp tool, possibly ground being dug up, likely the first convict garden, which the Petrie map shows multiplied across the whole of the promontory. Another explanation of this name is 'land shaped like a spike'. Both these are based on Dugai [European] activity and Dugai lens... Magandjin fits as the original word for an area of what is now called Brisbane. Migandjan refers to digging the ground—either gardens or buildings. However, the term Migandjan spread. As demonstrated, language repatriation is a work in progress.
200 years ago when the explorer John Oxley visited Moreton Bay in 1823, he named the river Brisbane in honour of the then Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane (1773-1860). Later, in 1825, a settlement on its banks to house Sydney's most unruly convicts was called Brisbane.
It was then that he named the river after Sir Brisbane, the Governor of NSW.
The city of Brisbane, Queensland's capital since 1859, was founded as a convict settlement in 1824, and it and its river were named for the governor at the suggestion of the explorer Oxley, the first European to survey the area.
In 1843, [ Ludwig Leichhardt ] was given two names: Makandschin from an original Brisbane man and Megandsin from an original speaker from a different country... Meston listed Magoo-jin then Magandjin, based on Magan, the name of the Tulipwood tree, from elderly Goori [Aboriginal] speakers who asserted they were 'Brisbane natives'... From a Goori knowledge base the names based on the Tulipwood tree fits best for the original Goori name. The suffix -djin indicates plural, e.g. people, district, river. The Migan-dar-gu-n (Mi'andjan) version describes the use of a sharp tool, possibly ground being dug up, likely the first convict garden, which the Petrie map shows multiplied across the whole of the promontory. Another explanation of this name is 'land shaped like a spike'. Both these are based on Dugai [European] activity and Dugai lens... Magandjin fits as the original word for an area of what is now called Brisbane. Migandjan refers to digging the ground—either gardens or buildings. However, the term Migandjan spread. As demonstrated, language repatriation is a work in progress.