Queensland, Australia from the Sky

For a first upload to AirVuz, new contributor BavarianTraveller brings us this video of a land far from southern Germany - the Australian state of Queensland.  The country's second-largest state by land area, Queensland covers over 1.7 million square km (around 670k square mi.)  The state is best known for its enormously long eastern coastline, which stretches for thousands of km/mi along the Coral Sea.  The video features some great footage of some of these famous beaches, as well as of the state's massive interior.  

Get an aerial tour of Australia's Queensland state in this marvelous compilation video by contributor and drone pilot esteheyns.  It contains highlights of her wanderings around Australia's third most populous state which is generally considered #1 in terms of its natural scenery.  The video includes footage of some of the state's enormously long coastline (including some great shots of the skyline of the city of Gold Coast as well as the state's  legendary surfing scene) as well as its vast hinterland.  

Brisbane is the largest city in Australia's Queensland state,  which covers the northeast corner of the country.  In this video, top AirVuz content creator and pilot Paul Vlad flew his DJI Mavic Pro drone over Brisbane at sunrise, creating a marvelous aerial perspective of Australia's third largest urban area after Sydney and Melbourne, both of which lie to the south of Brisbane.  Brisbane sits on the Brisbane River, a few km/mi upstream of where it empties into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea.

Would you drop everything and buy a one-way ticket to Australia? Would it be worth the risk? It was for the duo behind backpackpassion. Follow their incredible journey road tripping along Australia’s east coast with a DJI Mavic Pro drone. When you see this DVOW Finalist video you'll appreciate that New South Wales and Queensland aren't just about the big coastal cities; they have endless coastlines and expansive interiors.  Spoiler alert – you will also see some wild horses and a couple kangaroos.  

Top content creator Zimydakid does it again with this fantastic video from the area around Cairns in eastern Australia.  Cairns is the hottest ecotourism destination in Australia; it's the city closest to the heart of the Great Barrier Reef (which runs along most of the coast of the state of Queensland) as well as the Cape Tribulation nature area where crocodiles can be found in abundance.  In Zimydakid's well-developed style, the video features a mix of drone, ground camera, and underwater video footage.  

Contributor MantaMattMedia created this epic drone video of Heron Island, a coral cay located on the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef off of eastern Australia.  The Great Barrier Reef is the largest system of coral reefs in the world.  It is situated in the Coral Sea, which separates mainland Australia from the South Pacific islands such as New Caledonia.  Heron Island is one of the few inhabited islands amongst the 900 islands which make up the great Reef, and a popular departure point for divers.

Australia's Gladstone Region is in its northeastern state of Queensland.  It's located about 515 km (a bit over 300 mi.) north of the state capital Brisbane, although it's still only about a quarter of the distance to Queensland's northern tip.  The core of the region is the city of Gladstone, a port town on the estuary of the Calliope River.  In this reel by new AirVuz contributor Aerial Media Gladstone, you'll get an aerial tour of the region, home to Australia's largest multi-commodity port.    

Take an aerial tour of the southern part of the Australian state of Queensland in this stunning drone video by digiotto.  The video features footage from some of the most well-known spots in Queensland, the second-largest and third-most populous of Australia's states.  Watch it for drone's eye views of the state capital Brisbane (including its historic Story Bridge), Gold Coast (the state's second-largest city), the Queensland suburb Kangaroo Point, the Gold Coast suburb of Southport, and more.  

The Babinda Boulders form a natural pool where three streams come together in the Cairns Region on the northern coast of Queensland, the northeastern state of Australia.  Because of the fast-moving currents running over the rocks, the site is sometimes referred to as the Devil's Pool.  The boulders' origin is the subject of a local legend involving a young warrior and his lover.  Content creator and pilot Y0shi flew a drone over the Babindas to create an amazing aerial video of one of the world's most distinctive-looking rock formations.  

In this video, the top contributors and drone pilots Besos (aka the Flip Flop Squad) give us a bird's eye view of one of Australia's top beaches.  Whitehaven beach is on Whitsunday Island, the largest of a group of islands which lie off the coast of the state of Queensland.  They lie between Conway National Park on the mainland and the Great Barrier Reef.  Whitsunday Island was recently ranked #2 in a survey of the world's best beaches published by the Lonely Planet, and it regularly appears atop other "best beach" lists.  

Top content creator and pilot 70daysaroundtheworld created this amazing drone video of Gold Coast, one of the main beach cities of eastern Australia and the second largest city in the state of Queensland.  It's located south of the state capital of Brisbane.  Since 2005, Gold Coast has been the home of the tallest building in Australia: Q1 (Queensland Number One), which you'll see clearly in the video.  The 78 story residential tower has an architectural height of just over 320 meters (1.06k ft.).

Australia's Outback is vast but not precisely defined; under some definitions, it encompasses most of the interior of this gigantic nation-continent.  Mostly (although not entirely) arid, it covers an enormous expanse by any definition, and would represent one of the world's largest countries by land area were it independent.  In this drone video by By_ewold, you'll get some amazing perspective on this natural wonder, in the portion which falls within the (northeastern) state of Queensland.  

In this video, contributor and pilot Adam Macca uses a combination of ground and drone footage to give us a beautiful view of the Bayside area of Brisbane, the capital of Australia's Queensland state and the country's third-largest city after Sydney and Melbourne.  The term "Bayside" refers to the area southeast of central Brisbane  on Moreton Bay, the body of water into which the Brisbane River empties.  As you'll see in this video, it's a beautiful area, with many islands, countless recreational boats, and biking trails.  

Contributor and drone pilot NASa created this awesome aerial view of Cunningham's Gap, a well-known pass through the Great Dividing Range of mountain which runs up and down the eastern part of Australia.  This particular gap is in the northeastern state of Queensland, between the Darling Downs farming region on the western slope and the Fassifern Valley on the eastern.  The Great Dividing Range is actually a series of interconnected ranges which together are home home to most of Australia's mountainous terrain. 

Australia's state of Queensland, which covers the southeastern corner of the country, is known in part for its rock formations and its stunning beaches.  In this drone video, you'll see where these natural phenomena come together in a beautiful drone video of a beach near Noosa on the state's Sunshine Coast.  Located about an hour north of Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast region is the state's third largest population center.  The Noosa beaches are known for their "fairy pools", tidal pools formed by the area's unusual rock formations. 

The northeasern Australian state of Queensland has an enormously long coastline which covers nearly 7k km (around 4.3k mi).  Much of this expanse is on the state's eastern coast along the Coral Sea.  In this drone video by contributor Jeremie B, you'll get some great aerial views of a stretch of this enormous coastline which he covered over the course of a three week trip.  The starting point is the oddly named town of 1770 north of Brisbane, running about 1.4k km (aroun 900 mi.) north to Cape Tribulation.  

Here is an awesome aerial video of Brisbane, the great Australian city near the mouth of the river by the same name.  Brisbane is the capital of Queensland, the third most populous of Australia's seven states and its second largest by land area.  Contributor Hekticdrones used a DJI Mavic Pro to shoot this dawn-to-dusk montage of Australia's third largest city, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly 2.5 million people and which has one of the most impressive skylines of the cities of Australasia.

Most of the best-known beaches on the enormous coastline of Australia's state of Queensland are on its southern end, in the area between the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast (with the state's largest city Brisbane roughly in the middle).  In this video, contributor Samuel Young gives us a beautiful bird's eye view of Thornton Beach, which lies far north of these more well known areas.  It's situated by Port Douglas, near the base of the gigantic Cape York Peninsula which forms the northernmost part of the state.

Top contributor fromabove created this marvelous video from Australia's Gold Coast area in southern Queensland.  The video was put together to promote cruises in the boating heaven that exists in the semi-protected waters here.  Queensland's second largest city has always been a leisure-oriented area.  The natural visual appeal of its mangrove islands and forested coasts is complimented now by some of Australia's tallest skyscrapers, almost all of which are residential and hotels.

Noosa National Park is on the eastern coast of the state of Queensland, Australia.  It's situated in an area known as the Sunshine Coast, about a 90 minute drive north of Brisbane, the state capital and the third-largest city in Australia.   The park offers a range of outdoor activities, ranging from hiking to swimming.  It is the most popular national park in the country, recording over a million visitors annually.  Get a bird's eye view of the beautiful park in this drone video by contributor Nelson Kahler.   

Eastern Australia is home to the most extensive subtropical rainforest in the world: the Gondwana Rainforests.   The area consists of 50 separate reserves which collectively cover an area of over 350k hectares (just over 900k acres) in the states of New South Wales and Queensland.   A UNESCO World Heritage site, the Gondwana receive over two million visitors per year.  In this drone video by AirVuz contributor christangey, you'll get an aerial view of the Gondwana in Queensland, just a short distance west of the beach city Gold Coast.

Brisbane may be Australia's third-largest city, but it definitely ranks with Sydney and Melbourne (Australia's #1 and #2 cities, respectively) in terms of sheer physicaly beauty.  The capital of the state of Queensland, it lies toward the southern end of the state's long western coastline.  In this video, you'll get a beautiful bird's eye look at a part of Brisbane, compliments of contributor Marlin59.  The area filmed is called Raby Bay.  Considered a suburb of Brisbane, it sits just south of the city, also located on Moreton Bay.  

The Australian state of Queensland has some of the world's top spots for boating, scuba diving, and other forms of aquatic recreation.  One of the state's gems in this regard is a shipwreck site off the western coast of Moreton Island, on northeastern side of Moreton Bay near Brisbane.  Just offshore from the town of Tangalooma, there is a cluster of 15 sunken ships that were deliberately scuttled to form a breakwater.  Seen here in this drone video by Man Meets the World, the Tangalooma Wrecks offer a boaters' and scuba divers' paradise.  

Australia's Moreton Bay, on which the Queensland capital city Brisbane sits, is formed by two islands: Moreton and North Stradbroke.  Until 1896, there was no North Stadbroke Island nor was there a South Sadbroke Island, there was just Stradbroke Island.  In that year, a gigantic storm caused the island to split in two, divided by the Jumpinpin Channel.  In this drone video by contributor and pilot Adam Macca, you'll get a beautiful bird's eye view of North Stradbroke Island, sometimes called "Straddie". 

Check out this drone video of what is believed to be the world's largest sand island, compliments of YulianS.  Australia's Fraser Island is located off the coast of its Queensland state, a three hour drive north of the state capital Brisbane.  Fraser is over 120 km (about 75 mi.) long by about 22 km (around 15 mi.) wide, making it the country's sixth largest island by land area.  With all manner of flora and fauna, it's considered a natural treasure.  In 1992, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage natural site.

Behold this stunning drone video of Mt. Barney, one of the most scenic peaks of Australia's Great Dividing Range.  With a peak altitude of 1.4k meters (4.5k ft.) above sea level, Mt. Barney is one of the tallest peaks in the state of Queensland.  It's about a 90 minute drive from Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, not far from the border with the neighboring state of New South Wales.   In this video from contributor NASa, you'll get a bird's eye view of this popular hiking spot in the interior of eastern Australia.  

The story Bridge is one of the more well-known bridges in Australia.  It spans the Brisbane River between the northern and southern suburbs of Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland and the country's third-largest city after Sydney and Melbourne.  Completed in 1940, it was the second of the city's river crossings.  With a total length of about 777 meters (around 2.5k ft.) it is the longest cantilevered bridge in Australia.  You can see it from above in this beautiful drone video from digiotto, shot on Christmas Eve. 

Check out this beautiful sunset drone video from a marina in Queensland, Australia, compliments of contributor and drone pilot Davac Digital Art.  The marina is in Manly (not to be confused with the Sydney suburb of the same name), which is located south of the mouth of the Brisbane River and more or less due east from the Brisbane city center.   It lies on Moreton Bay, the body of water which sits between Moreton Island and the mainland.  The bay is considered some of the finest boating and fishing waters in Australia.  

Check out this drone video of Australia's Fitzroy Island, compiments of AirVuz contributor maxfrompine.  Fitzroy Island lies off the coast of Queensland, the enormous state which covers the northeastern part of the country.  It's located about 30 km (just under 20 mi.) southeast of Cairns, the main city on Queensland's northern coastline.  The island is surrounded by reefs which are part of the Great Barrier Reef system. Covering an area of about 3 square km (just over a square mi.), the island is covered by a tropical rainforest.   

While Australia is known for its beaches and deserts, what's less appreciated is that the country also hosts some impressive rainforests.  One of these is in a mountainous area around Main Range National Park in southeastern Queensland, not far from Brisbane.  Part of a chain of mountains called the Scenic Rim, it's one of Australia's natural treasures.  In this video by contributor and drone pilot NASa, you'll get a bird's eye view of the area, which is also home to some usual rock formations called "Steamers".