A suburb of Brisbane. Postcode - 4178. Name and boundaries approved by Queensland Place Names Board 11 August 1975. Boundary altered by the Minister for Natural Resources and Minister for Mines, 2 May 2003. Boundary altered by the Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, 1 October 2004. The name was probably suggested originally as a port name by Sir George Ferguson Bowen (1821-1899), in 1859-60, after Edward George Earle Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873) politician, novelist, poet and critic, Secretary of State for the Colonies 1858-59.
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