St Lucia, Queensland
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St. Lucia campus, looking towards the Forgan Smith Building
St Lucia is an inner western suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The suburb is bordered on three sides by the Brisbane River and is dominated by the main campus of the University of Queensland. Adjoining suburbs are Indooroopilly, Taringa and Toowong.
St Lucia is a green, leafy suburb with a variety of housing including apartment complexes and detached Federation styles and Queenslanders. Typically, the student population of St Lucia is high, especially in dwellings in the immediate vicinity of the university, but the suburb is also home to wealthy professionals and families.
Several small shopping complexes are located throughout the suburb. St Lucia is easily accessible by public transport, either by bus or CityCat. The nearest train station is Toowong Station, located in the adjoining suburb of Toowong.
Sugar plantations were established in the area in the 1860s. The suburb derives its name from William Wilson, who purchased and subdivided one of the plantations for housing in the 1880s. Wilson, born in St Lucia in the West Indies, named the housing estate St Lucia because the cane plantations in the area reminded him of those in his country of birth [link].
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