For one thing, when you divide one number by another, you expect the result to be another number. Look at the sequence of numbers 1/(1/2), 1/(1/3), 1/(1/4), ... . Notice that the bottoms of the fractions are 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ..., and that they're going to zero.
It was moved to the site of Brisbane the following year. By 1829 there were almost 1000 prisoners, more than 100 of whom were women, but by 1839 only 107 convicts remained. The penal era ended in 1842 when the Moreton Bay area was opened to free settlement, with Brisbane Town as its centre.Today, only the Windmill Tower and the Commissariat Store, both built by convict labour, still stand as markers of those times.enal Colony and Early Settlement History. During some of the earliest chapters of Australian exploration, it was decided that a second penal colony should be established at Redcliffe in 1824 to house the most recalcitrant of Sydneyâs convicts.
1851 The first wool is shipped from Moreton Bay to England. John Oxley later called the Moreton bay settlement Brisbane town (later shorted to Brisbane) after Sir Thomas MacDougal Brisbane as he was the new governor of NSW.On the 3 of June, 1859 Queen Victoria signs a letters patent, making Queensland a separate colony.he colony of Queensland was established in 1823 when New South Wales Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane sent explorer John Oxley to find potential new penal sites across the Brisbane river, including Moreton Bay.