Wallangarra, a town on the Queensland - New South Wales border, is 200 km south-west of central Brisbane. It is thought that the name was derived from an Aboriginal expression describing a local waterhole. The town is near the 1859 surveyor's tree carving that marked the state border, and there is a pre-federation customs house erected for the regulation of inter-colonial trade.

Redcliffe, a coastal suburb facing Moreton Bay, is 28 km north of central Brisbane. It is situated on a peninsula which has its access restricted by Hays Inlet and adjoining mangrove areas on the south, and another mangrove area on its north. The name arose from a physical feature recorded by Matthew Flinders in July 1799: he noted rocks at Woody Point, strongly impregnated with iron, which he named Red Cliff Point. (It was not the Redcliffe Point found in modern street directories at the end of Anzac Avenue, Redcliffe.)