cooktown

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The site of Australia’s first European settlement, Cooktown is famous for being the place where Captain James Cook stopped for repairs in 1770, after running aground on the Great Barrier Reef. Cooktown is 327 kilometers (4 hours) north of Cairns

Discovery Festival / Re-Enactment of the Encounter
[|Cooktown Discovery Festival] is a unique celebration of the landing of Lt. James Cook in 1770 and his first meeting with the local Guugu Yimithirr and Kuku Yalanji people.

Cooktown is the place to be in June, when the Annual Discovery Festival and Re-enactment of Cook's Landing takes place. Loads of free entertainment, live music, buskers, competitions, Billy Karts, parades, Aboriginal story-telling, corroboree....and the arrival of Cook [] [] [] [|http://www.cook.qld.gov.au] [|Happy Customers lead to Australia Day Award] [] [|Cooktown - a small town whose history changed the world]' []

Botanical Gardens
It took seven weeks to fix the Endeavour and in that time Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander documented and catalogued more than 200 specimens. Botanical illustrator, Sydney Parkinson, spent the time meticulously depicting the plants and scenes of the area. The Cooktown Botanical Gardens is now a testament to their work.

[|Cooktown Botanic Gardens]. Established in 1878 the Gallop Botanic Reserve encompases 62.3 hectares (154 acres) on the edge of Cooktown and contains the Cooktown Botanic Gardens and walking trails to Finch Bay and Cherry Tree Bay. http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2013/06/07/243493_entertainment.html

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Tours
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Transportation
[|Skytrans Airlines] __flies between Cairns and Cooktown.__ __[|Country Road Coachlines]__ offers a regular bus service between Cairns and Cooktown, on both coastal and inland routes.

Wikipedia
[|Cooktown - Wikipedia] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guugu_Yimithirr_language

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Take me to the waters] [|Cooktown Tropical North Queensland] [|Cooktown Cares] [|James Cook Museum] [|Cooktown information] [|Cooktown - Australian Traveler]

[|Cook in Cooktown] The story of the first contact, first conflict, and first reconciliation between Aboriginal Australians and Europeans.