Just 12kms from the centre of Brisbane, Arana Hills is a leafy suburb that adjoins the Bunyaville Forest Reserve. Informally it is part of the Hills District, but it is actually part of the council region known as the City of Moreton Bay.

It seems that the name of Arana Hills was chosen for the Camden and Patrick estates under the impression that in some Aboriginal languages it meant welcome. The later discovery that it was a word referring to the moon did not take away from it its pleasant sounding ring. The name became official, 22 December, 1962.

Fun fact: Arana Hills lies within the northern part of the Kedron Brook catchment, although the waterway itself does not flow through the suburb.