Logan City

Sister cities

• Suzhou

History

Yugembah (also known as Yugumbir, Jugambel, Jugambeir, Jugumbir, Jukam, Jukamba) is an Australian Aboriginal languages of South East Queensland. The Yugembah language areas include Gold Coast, Logan, Scenic Rim, Tweed River Valley, Albert River, Beaudesert, Beenleigh, Coolangatta, Coomera, Logan River, Pimpama and Tamborine, within the local government boundaries of the City of Gold Coast, City of Logan, Scenic Rim Regional Council and the Tweed River Valley. The Commandant of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Captain Patrick Logan, was a compulsive explorer and in 1826 on his first expedition he discovered the Logan River. He noted the river was well suited to large-vessel traffic and was a first-class avenue to access the high-quality arable land along its banks. He named the country Darling, in honour of the Governor. The Governor renamed the river after Logan. One of the first large employers was the timber industry. The penal settlement based in Brisbane was closed in 1841 and the land was quickly taken up by squatters. The first leases of land in the Logan area were issued from 1849 and immigration was encouraged following the separation from NSW in 1859. The declaration of the Logan and Eight Mile Plains Agricultural Reserves in 1862 led to extensive settlement of the area. German immigrants arrived in batches from the 1864 onwards. Generous land orders for immigrants in Queensland created a drawcard in the possibility of owning their own farm. A cotton gin, which was converted to a sugar mill, was built at Loganholme in 1867. Significant flooding occurred in Logan during the 1974 Brisbane flood. The Wild Water Water Slide Park began operations in October 1982. The site was to become the Logan Hyperdome with the first work on the regional shopping centre…

Most-observed species

• Noisy Miner

  Manorina melanocephala (Latham, 1801) · Aves
  30,688
• Torresian Crow

  Corvus orru Bonaparte, 1850 · Aves
  28,487
• Rainbow Lorikeet

  Trichoglossus haematodus (Linnaeus, 1771) · Aves
  28,120
• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  25,013
• Gray Butcherbird

  Cracticus torquatus (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  19,317
• Laughing Kookaburra

  Dacelo novaeguineae (Hermann, 1783) · Aves
  18,471
• Welcome Swallow

  Hirundo neoxena Gould, 1842 · Aves
  17,847
• Australian Ibis

  Threskiornis molucca (Cuvier, 1829) · Aves
  17,262