Eagle Farm, Queensland

Download coordinates as: Eagle Farm is an eastern industrial suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

[4] Eagle Farm is situated 8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi) north-east of the Brisbane central business district.

The Southern Cross Way splits from the Gateway Motorway and also heads north-west, becoming the north-western boundary of Eagle Farm with Hamilton.

[6] The Doomben/Pinkenba railway line passes through the suburbs from west (Ascot/Hamilton) to east (Pinkenba) to the north of Kingsford Smith Drive.

[6] The Royal Queensland Golf Club is located at 431 Curtin West Avenue and extends south to the river.

In 1829, Captain Patrick Logan chose this well-watered, fertile site between the Brisbane River and Serpentine Creek to farm mostly maize, pigs and cattle.

[4] In the 1850s, Aboriginal people set up camps in the Breakfast Creek Eagle Farm area, including groups of the Bribie Island, Ningy-Ningy (Toorbul Point to Redcliffe) and Wide Bay Aboriginal peoples, who were losing their traditional territory further north.

The line opened to Meeandah on 31 March 1897, but the section to Pinkenba was below the high tide level and had to be reclaimed using sand dredged to construct a railway wharf on the river.

[1] Eagle Farm has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: The Allison Engine Testing Stands site is part of Brisbane's TradeCoast Central at the old Brisbane airport site in the suburb of Eagle Farm, where new and rebuilt World War II Allison V-12 in-line liquid cooled aero engines were tested in the open air prior to fitting into reassembled aircraft, notably the P38-Lightning, Curtis Kittyhawk and Bell Airacobra.

It is now known as TAFE Queensland SkillsTech, featuring trade courses such as electrical, plumbing, glass and glazing, renewable energy and electronics.