Sir Charles Kingsford Smith - Brisbane birthplace Claimed

The weatherboard cottage named Corbea on this site, before being demolished in 1936 to make way for today's flats at number 12, was the birthplace of Australia's greatest aviator, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith in 1897. The riverfront road is named after him and his beloved Southern Cross Fokker Tri-Motor aircraft now rests in air conditioned comfort at Brisbane Airport, near the International Terminal. It was in this aircraft that Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, Jim Warner and Harry Lyon made the first crossing of the Pacific, landing at nearby Eagle Farm Racecourse on June 9, 1928.

From the book, Smithy

A vivid description of Charles Kingsford Smith's birthplace forms the beginning of author Ian Mackersey's biography, Smithy, first published in 1998 by Little, Brown and Company in the UK (ISBN 0 7515 2656 8):

The Brisbane into which Charles Kingsford smith was born three years before the turn of the century was already a sizeable town of around 100,000 people. A collection of wooden houses and low brick and stone buildings it sprawled, among palms and banana trees, along the banks of the Brisbane River, which bustled with square-rigged sailing vessels and long-funnelled