Download coordinates as: Pinkenba (/ˌpɪŋkənˈbɑː/ PING-kən-BAH) is a town and eastern coastal suburb within the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

[14] The former suburb of Meeandah took its name from the now disused Meeandah railway station on the Pinkenba railway line, which in turn was named after a corruption of the Greek word meander, and referred to Serpentine Creek which flowed through the area, but has subsequently been converted into a drain due to the development of Brisbane Airport.

[15][16][17] Bulwer Island was named after Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton who, as the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, separated Queensland from New South Wales in 1859.

[7] As the name suggests, it was originally an island in the Brisbane River which became permanently attached to the mainland through a land reclamation project in the 1960s.

[26] In 1892, the opening of the Queensland Meat Export and Agency Company's meatworks in Pinkenba necessitated the establishment of a town where workers could live close to their work.

[29] On Saturday 15 December 1900, auctioneers Isles, Love & Co offered 42 suburban allotments and seven farm sites for sale in the Cluya Road area (27°24′51″S 153°07′31″E / 27.4142°S 153.1254°E / -27.4142; 153.1254 (The Port Brisbane Estate)).

[19][23] St Matthias' Anglican Church was dedicated on 14 February 1925 by Canon de Witt Batty.

[46] It was located on the south-east corner of Hopper Street and McBride Road (27°25′22″S 153°07′08″E / 27.4227°S 153.1189°E / -27.4227; 153.1189 (St Matthias' Anglican Church (former))).

[29] The church is no longer extant; its land is now part of the Brisbane Airport, just south of Qantas Hangar 3's carpark.

[48] During the war, a Royal Australian Navy Defence Station was established, with the remains of the facility listed on the current Queensland Heritage Register.

[51] However, at the time of the queen's visit, The Canberra Times described the site as "desolate" and "a smelly, muddy, mosquito-infested swamp", but the site was planted with 12-foot (3.7 m) high palm trees and flower beds and the area sprayed with insecticide in advance of her visit (which are no longer extant).

[53] Although significant oil deposits had been found at Moonie, the 186-mile (299 km) pipeline to Brisbane was not completed until the following year.

Over 2,000,000 cubic metres (71,000,000 cu ft) of material was dredged from the bed of Brisbane River to connect the island with the northern bank of the river and to create a 90-hectare (220-acre) site (27°24′08″S 153°08′30″E / 27.4021°S 153.1416°E / -27.4021; 153.1416 (Bulwer Island oil refinery)) raised to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) above the high tide level.

[6] Myrtletown was historically known as a residential and farming locality, though maritime and industrial facilities have developed in recent decades.

[citation needed] As of March 2020[update], two cruise ship wharves for Brisbane are located there, with differing facilities.

62.5% of people living in Pinkenba were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of birth were New Zealand 7%, Iran 6.8%, England 2.5%, Italy 1.4%, France 0.8%.

77.3% of people spoke only English at home; the next most popular languages were 2% Italian, 1.7% Cantonese, 1.1% Tagalog, 0.9% Afrikaans, 0.9% Serbo-Croatian/Yugoslavian.

In 2011, Shell's operations at Bulwer Island were expanded, with the opening of a new bitumen and marine fuel import facility.

A railway branch line to Pinkenba was constructed to encourage port development downstream away from the Brisbane central business district.

[citation needed] On the day of the 2011 census, 9.1% of employed people travelled to work on public transport and 63.6% by car (either as driver or as passenger).