The Redcliffe settlement is abandoned after a year, and the colony is moved to a site on the Brisbane River now known as North Quay, twenty-eight kilometers (seventeen miles) south, which offers a more reliable water supply.

The newly selected region is plagued by mosquitoes.

Sir Thomas Brisbane had visited the settlement and traveled forty-five kilometers (twenty-eight miles) up the Brisbane River in December 1824, bestowing upon Brisbane the distinction of being the only Australian capital city set foot upon by its namesake.

Chief Justice Forbes had given the new settlement the name of Edenglassie before it was named Brisbane.