Queensland is a state with many unusual, dubious and colonial names. In this series of maps, USC students highlight places that have been sites of massacres or segregation, named after explorers with disputed histories, or locations that have been renamed despite previous Indigenous links.

Ellen Hill and Ruby Walker took a look places where indigenous people were segregated or massacred.

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Julia Forbes and Jade Marley explored some of the places in Queensland named after Captain James Cook, whose mission changed the lives of Indigenous Australians.

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And Ella Bradford, Maeve Hudson, Nakia-Lee Goodall and D’Artagnan Douglas found some other locations named after people or places with questionable histories, that we’ll be unpacking as this project unfolds.

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This article is part of a larger project called Where What Why. You can find the whole collection of stories about places and their names here.