> Gaylene mentions "17 Mile Rocks", I have ancestors who lived > in the Brisbane area at "1 Mile Swamp" and another family at > "4 Mile Swamp". I think the miles are measured from whatever other place was of interest to the person who named it. I don't think there is generally some well-defined point from which they are all measured. For what it's worth, the One Mile Swamp is Woolloongabba. The area that is now the bus station and cricket ground was once rather swampy. Kerry

I always thought that the miles were from the GPO. Nell Schemioneck