Cooktown, North Queensland
Cooktown is a town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. Cooktown is located about 2,000 kilometres north of Brisbane and 328 kilometres north of Cairns, by road. Cooktown is about 857 kilometres south of Cape York by road. At the time of the 2016 census, Cooktown had a population of 2,631.
Cooktown, on the eastern coast of Cape York Peninsula, is 1600 km north of Brisbane and 650 km from Torres Strait. Cooktown grew rapidly as the nearest port for the Palmer River gold rush in the 1870s. By the 1880s, its population peak, one-fifth of its residents were Chinese. The town declined rapidly in the first two decades of the twentieth century and by the 1950s it was almost a ghost town. Tourism gradually came to its rescue. Its relative isolation and its spectacular setting on Cape York drew increasing numbers from the 1980s. #cooktown #daintree #charters towers #townsville #Nebo, Central Queensland #dorrigo #Uralla #Dangars Gorge #gostwyck chapel #Glen Innes #Dalby Region, Darling Downs, Queensland #lake broadwater #The Entrance NSW #Lane Cove Sydney, NSW #Childers festival, Queensland #Bathurst, New South Wales #Tenterfield NSW #Springbrook National Park #Palm Beach.
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