Named After Thomas Brisbane
The following features are named after Thomas Brisbane:
- The Brisbane River and the city of Brisbane in Australia, the Queensland state capital. (The city of Brisbane, California may in turn have been named after Brisbane, Queensland, but the derivation is disputed.)
- The Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium (in Brisbane, Australia).
- The crater Brisbane on the Moon.
- Noddsdale, the valley near Largs where his birthplace Brisbane House was situated, was renamed Brisbane Glen in his honour.
- Brisbane Street, Greenock
- The Canberra suburb of Isabella Plains is named after Sir Thomas's daughter Isabella Brisbane.
- The Brisbane House Hotel in Largs, a town located by the sea in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
- The Thomas Makdougall Brisbane bridge in Largs
- The Makdougall Brisbane prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Many other uses of Brisbane derive from the Australian city and hence are indirectly named after Thomas Brisbane.
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