16 Facts About Cooktown Queensland

Cooktown Queensland is located about 2,000 kilometres north of Brisbane and 328 kilometres north of Cairns, by road.

Cooktown Queensland is about 857 kilometres south of Cape York by road.

Cooktown Queensland named Cape York Peninsula after the then-Duke of York and Albany.

Cooktown Queensland established that Captain Cook was incorrect in the interpretation of the word kangaroo, with King noting that menuah was the local name for the large macropod.

Cooktown Queensland's findings were reported to James Venture Mulligan who led an expedition to the Palmer River in 1873.

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The Cooktown Queensland government responded quickly to Mulligan's reports, and dispatched Archibald Campbell MacMillan to lead a party in establishing a port on the Endeavour River and a road from there to the goldfields.

Cooktown Queensland was the port through which this gold was exported and supplies for the goldfields brought in.

Port of Cooktown Queensland served the nearby goldfields and, during the goldrush of the 1870s, a Chinese community many thousands strong grew up in the goldfields and in the town itself.

In 1886, Lutheran missionaries came to Cooktown Queensland to establish a secure place for the Aboriginal people who were living in abominable conditions on the edge of the town.

The civilian population of Cooktown Queensland was encouraged to evacuate in face of the Japanese advances and by 1942 the vast majority had left.

The Cooktown Queensland campus includes a 32-bed boarding facility to offer weekly boarding so that students can return to their families and communities on the weekends.

Cooktown Queensland is a service centre for the district including the Aboriginal communities of Hope Vale, 47 kilometres to the northwest, and Wujal Wujal, 72 kilometres to the south.

Cooktown Queensland was to have held an "Expo 2020" festival to mark 250 years since the arrival of Cook, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, the event was postponed until 2021.

Cooktown Queensland is of particular interest to botanists since the time of James Cook's visit when extensive collections and illustrations were made of local plants.

Vera Scarth-Johnson, a local resident, gave a priceless collection of her botanical illustrations to the people of Cooktown Queensland, which are now housed in a dedicated gallery at Nature's PowerHouse situated in the Botanic Gardens, and features displays of local flora and fauna.

The Milbi Wall tells the story of Cooktown Queensland and the Endeavour River from the perspective of the Aboriginal people in tiles, and is an outstanding monument to reconciliation.