Queensland, Australia from the Sky

Experience the beauty of Australia's Queensland state from above in this compilation video, which was created with footage from the "Queensland, Australia from the Sky" collection.  You'll fly over spots like the high-rises of the Gold Coast, Moreton and Fraser Islands, Brisbane, and more.  

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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.  

Check out these fantastic drone views of Brisbane, Australia, compliments of former Drone Video of the Week Finalist Gizmo Drones.  At the :10 mark, you'll see the Story Bridge, which connects the city's northern and southern suburbs over the Brisbane River.  At 1:05, you'll see the Kangaroo Bridge, a pedestrian span which opened in 2024.  At 1:29, you'll see the Queens Wharf project in the city's CBD, followed by the nearby (pedestrian) Neville Bonner Bridge.  Other featured locations include the Wheel of Brisbane (1:37).    

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.  

Check out this beautiful drone video of the Gold Coast, Australia at sunrise, compliments of noah.creative.  The second-largest city in the state of Queensland after Brisbane, the Gold Coast is located at the southern end of the state's long eastern coastline, just north of the border with New South Wales.  Home to some of Australia's finest beach areas, its impressive skyline includes 18 skyscrapers over 120 meters (about 400 ft.), including the 78 story Q1; with a pinnacle height of 323 meters (about 1.06k ft.), it's Australia's tallest.

Take an aerial tour of the coast of Queensland, Australia in this excellent drone video by AirVuz contributor One PLanet Music Films.  The video was shot during the Winter of 2022 and covers a long stretch of the Queensland's eastern coastline, from Cairns in the north to Noosa in the south, a distance of over 1k mi. (around 1.7k km).   This is the heart of coastal Queensland, an enormous state which covers a land area of over 700k square mi., or around 1.85MM square km, Australia's second-largest state by land area.  

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.

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.  

Former Drone Video of the Week Winner oculusfilms brings us this fantastic drone video of Tangalooma Wrecks, a well-known "shipwreck" site in the eastern Australian state of Queensland.  The site is located off the western coast of Moreton Island on the northeastern side of Moreton Bay, near Brisbane.  It consists of over a dozen ships which were deliberately scuttled here in the early 1960's to form an aquatic recreation site.  It's since become an extremely popular spot for snorkeling and scuba diving.  

Contributor and drone pilot NASA created this awesome aerial view of Cunningham's Gap, a well-known pass through the Great Dividing Range of mountains 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 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.  

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 Aerial Media Gladstone returns to AirVuz after a two year hiatus with this fantastic drone showreel from Australia's Gladstone Region in the eastern state of Queensland.  The core of the region is the city of Gladstone, a port town on the estuary of the Calliope River which is located about 300 mi. (around 515 km) north of the city of Brisbane.  The reel features footage from around the region, including some great shots of the Port of Gladstone, one of the 4-5 largest coal exporting ports in the world 

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.   

Enjoy these aerial views of Australia's Bribie Island, compliments of AirVuz contributor Oz Straya Panoramas.  Bribie Island is one of several islands which form the boundaries of Moreton Bay, just north of the city of Brisbane in the eastern state of Queensland.  Separated from the mainland by the Pumicestone Channel, the island is about 21 mi. long (34 km) and around 5 mi. across (8 km) at its widest point.  Of the island's 57 square mi. of surface area (148 square km), almost 40% is located within the Bribie Island National Park.  

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". 

New AirVuz contributor pieterjohnsen used a DJI Mavic Air 2 to create this excellent drone video of the Glasshouse Mountains, a set of hills near the country's eastern coast in the state of Queensland.  The highest of the 13 hills is Mount Beerwah, which has a peak elevation of just over 550 meters above sea level (a bit over 1.8k ft.).   Rising abruptly from the coastal plain in the Sunshine Coast region (just north of Brisbane, the Queensland capital), the hills appear to be considerably taller.  

New AirVuz contributor and pilot adventureswithkids brings us this excellent drone video of Australia's Fraser Island.  Considered the world's largest sand island, it's located off the coast of Queensland, 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.  

AirVuz contributor and pilot noah.creative brings us this excellent drone video of a giant new roller coaster under construction at one of Australia's premiere amusement parks.  The Leviathan rollercoaster will be the newest ride at Sea World Australia, which is located in the city of Gold Coast, on the southern end of the long coastline of Queensland.  Constructed of wood, the ride features backwards-facing seats and reaches speeds of almost 55 mph (almost 85 kph).  It is scheduled to open in the summer of 2021.  

Drone King in Darwin brings us this excellent drone video of Australia's Airlie Beach, one of the jumping-off points for the Great Barrier Reef.  It's part of the Whitsunday Region, which is roughly in the middle of the very long eastern coastline of the state of Queensland.  Located on Pioneer Bay, it is one of the closest spots on the Australian mainland to the great reef, which stretches for roughly 1.4k mi. (around 2.3k km) on a roughly northwest-to-southeast axis parallel to the Queensland coast.  

The Gold Coast area of southern Queensland is considered the heart of Australia's aquatic recreation culture.  Part of the reason for this is the presence of the Gold Coast Seaway, which connects the inland waterways created by the mouth of the Nerang River with the Pacific Ocean.  Seen here in this drone video by Oz Straya Panoramas, the seaway was constructed in the 1980's, providing safe passage for small watercraft which had been at the mercy of shifting sands along the bar which forms the eastern side of the waterway.  

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".

The traveling duo known as the Besos (aka, the Flip Flop Squad) brings us this excellent video record of a sailing trip to Australia's Whitsunday Islands.  The Whitsundays are a group of islands which lie off the coast of the state of Queensland, in the eastern part of Australia.  The video features footage of the following locations: Pinnacle Bay, Mantaray Bay, and Butterfly Bay on Hook Island; Langford Island, Hill Inlet and Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island; Nara Inlet on Hook Island; and Woodwark Bay on the mainland.  

New contributor Oz Straya Panoramas shows off the impressive capabilities of the Autel Evo 2 drone in this impressive aerial video from a famous waterfall in Australia.  The waterfall is called Purling Brook Falls, which is a horsetail-type waterfall in the eastern state of Queensland.  It's located within the Gondwana Rainforests, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a short distance inland from Gold Coast.  Depending on the season and rainfall patterns, the falls has a single drop of about 100 meters (around 330 ft.).  

Check out these stunning drone views of Australia's Mt. Mitchell, compliments of AirVuz contributor and pilot Oz Straya Panoramas.  The volcanic mountain has dual peaks, the taller of which has an elevation of about 1.17k meters above sea level (a bit over 3.8k ft.).  It's part of the Main Range, a forested mountain chain in southeastern Queensland and northeastern New South Wales.  Mt. Mitchell is only about an hour's drive west of Brisbane, the Queensland capital and the country's third-largest city.  

Enjoy these aerial views of the beach town of Surfers Paradise, Australia, compliments of AirVuz contributor SkyCinema.  Surfers Paradise is a northern suburb of Gold Coast, the second-largest city of the state of Queensland, which lies just north of the state border New South Wales.   Filmed at sunrise with a DJI Mavic 3 drone, the video features excellent shots of the high-rise residences which line the city's beachfront.  Just before the 1:00 mark, you'll get some nice views of the city's Home of the Arts Center art district.  

The Australian city of Gladstone is home to one of the world's largest dry bulk commodity export ports, with annual throughput on the order of 100 million tons.  In this drone video by Aerial Media Gladstone, you'll get an aerial tour of the port's Auckland Point terminal, the oldest part of the port.  While Auckland Point originally primarily handled coal (which currently accounts for about two-thirds of the port's overall throughput tonnage), it's recently been converted to handle limestone.  

AirVuz contributor pieterjohnsen went through two years' worth of video footage to create this impressive montage of footage from Queensland, the second-largest Australian state by land area.  With most of its population of roughly five million concentrated on the southern end of its coastline on the Coral Sea, Queensland offers immense areas of outdoor beauty.  The video, which mixes drone and ground camera footage, will take you to its beaches, the Great Barrier Reef, interior rainforests and mountains, and more.  

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.  

AirVuz contributor SkyCinema brings us this excellent drone video of a beautiful spot on the Australian coast.  It's called the Redcliffe Peninsula, and it's located in the eastern state of Queensland, about a 45 minute drive north of Brisbane.  It's part of the Moreton Bay Region, which includes some of Brisbane's northernmost suburbs and extends further north.  The Redcliffe Peninsula is surrounded by Moreton Bay, an inlet of the Coral Sea which is formed by Moreton, Stadbroke, and a number of smaller islands east of Brisbane. 

Take in these beautiful aerial views of Steiglitz, Australia compliments of AirVuz contributor SkyCinema.  Steiglitz is located on the southern side of Moreton Bay, a bit southeast of the city of Brisbane in the eastern state of Queensland.  While the bay (an inlet of the Coral Sea) opens up to the north, at the south end it's a cluster of islands and waterways.  It's part of the Gold Coast, Queensland's second-largest city, which covers the entirety of the state's southern coastline north of the state border with New South Wales.  

Explore Australia's Lake Wivenhoe from above in this excellent drone video by AirVuz contributor Northeast Drone Productions.  The lake is a reservoir created for the Wivenhoe Dam, an embankment dam over the Brisbane River about an hour's drive northwest of the city of Brisbane in the eastern state of Queensland.  The primary purpose of the dam, which was contructed in the 1970's, is to provide fresh water to Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city; it also provides flood control and generates some hydroelectricity.  

AirVuz contributor and pilot Oz Straya Panoramas brings us this excellent drone video of a small island in the Australian state of Queensland.  Coochiemudlo Island is located in the southern part of Moreton Bay, a bit to the southeast of the city of Brisbane.  With a full-time population of about 750 people, the island and its surrounding waters are home to a wide variety of wildlife, including (as you'll see in the video) dolphins.  The video was filmed with an Autel Lite 4k drone.  

Relax and enjoy these calming aerial views of the serene beaches of Australia's Bribie Island, compliments of contributor SkyCinema.  The long, narrow island forms part of the northern side of Moreton Bay, an inlet of the Coal Sea just east of the city of Brisbane in the eastern state of Queensland.  While there is some suburban buildup on the southwestern part of the island, near the bridge which connected it to the mainland in 1963, much of its 57 square mi. (just under 150 square km) is uninhabited.  

Check out these stunning drone views of Brisbane, Australia by AirVuz contributor and pilot Northeast Drone Productions.  The video opens with some excellent shots of the skyscrapers of the city's Central Business District, which lies along the left bank of the Brisbane River.  At the :35 mark, you'll see the Wheel of Brisbane Ferris Wheel, and at the 1:19 mark you'll see the Eagle Street Pier.  Australia's third-largest city and capital of the state of Queensland, Brisbane was recently picked as the host city for the 2032 Summer Olympics.

AirVuz contributor Northeast Drone Productions used a DJI Mavic 3 classic drone to create this beautiful aerial tour of Gold Coast, one of the main beach cities of eastern Australia and the second largest city (after Brisbane) in the state of Queensland.  It's located just north of the state border with New South Wales.  The video was filmed at sunrise flying over the Home of the Arts cultural district, which is located on the Nerang River in Surfers Paradise, an adjoining Gold Coast suburb.  

Take an aerial tour of Australia's Gladstone Region in this excellent drone reel by AirVuz contributor Aerial Media Gladstone.  The city of Gladstone is located a bit over 300 mi. (a little more than 500 km) north of Brisbane, Queensland's capital and principal city.   While Gladstone is more than 850 mi. (around 1.4k km) north of Queensland's southern border with the neighboring state of New South Wales, it's only about a quarter of the way to the north end of Queensland's enormously long eastern coastline.  

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.    

Talented content creator and pilot Oz Straya Panoramas used an Autel Lite drone to create this fantastic aerial view of Australia's Glass House Mountains.  The range consists of a series of 13 peaks which rise from the coastal plain of the state of Queensland, just inland from the Sunshine Coast area.  While their maximum altitude is a modest 1.8k ft. above sea level (a little over 550 meters), the Glass House Mountains appear to be significantly taller due to their immediate sea level surroundings.  

AirVuz contributor and first person view (FPV) pilot yedi.fpb earned himself a spot on the FPV Pilots to Watch list in June, 2020 with this beautiful coastal cruising piece from Australia.  The video was filmed at Bribie Island, which forms the northern part of Moreton Bay in the eastern state of Queensland.  While the noorthern part of the island is largely uninhabited, its southern portion is considered part of the Moreton Bay Region, which constitutes the northern part of Greater Brisbane.