Father and Son look out into the cloudscape after hiking to a remote ridge top in Far North Queensland, Australia. For those of us who love remote sparsely populated areas, Queensland is a large state with a population of around 4.7 million. At 1,727,000 square kilometres (666,800 square miles) it is five times the size of Japan, seven times the size of Great Britain, and two and a half times the size of Texas.