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The Best Attractions In Cook Shire

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The Shire of Cook is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia. The Shire covers most of the eastern and central parts of Cape York Peninsula, the most northerly section of the Australian mainland. It covers an area of 106,188.4 square kilometres , and has existed as a local government entity since 1919.
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The Best Attractions In Cook Shire

  • 1. Cod Hole Lizard Island
    Cod Hole is one of the best known dive sites in the world and is located on the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia on ribbon reef number 10. It is notable for and is named after the dozen or so potato cod that live there. The sanctioned feeding of these fish and number of visitors to the site has also made it a focal point in the debate over reef management.
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  • 2. Grassy Hill Cooktown
    Grassy Hill Light, also known as Cooktown Light, is an active lighthouse located on Grassy Hill above Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, on the south side of the entrance to Endeavour River.
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  • 3. James Cook Museum Cooktown
    James Cook Historical Museum is a heritage-listed former convent and school and now museum at Furneaux Street, Cooktown, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Francis Drummond Greville Stanley and built from 1888 to 1889 Hobbs & Carter. It was formerly known as St Mary's Convent and School. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
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  • 6. Lizard Island National Park Lizard Island
    Lizard Island is an island on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland , 1624 km northwest of Brisbane and part of the Lizard Island Group that also includes Palfrey Island. It is part of the Lizard Island National Park. Lizard Island is within Cook Shire.
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  • 7. Cooktown War Memorial Cooktown
    Cooktown Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at Charlotte Street, Cooktown, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1874 to 1920. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 8 April 1997.
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  • 9. Cedar Bay National Park Cooktown
    Cedar Bay is a 56.5 km2 national park in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia.
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  • 10. Cooktown History Centre Cooktown
    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. At the time of the 2016 census, Cooktown had a population of 2,631.Cooktown is at the mouth of the Endeavour River, on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland where James Cook beached his ship, the Endeavour, for repairs in 1770. Both the town and Mount Cook which rises up behind the town were named after James Cook.Cooktown is one of the few large towns in the Cape York Peninsula and was founded on 25 October 1873 as a supply port for the goldfields along the Palmer River. It was called Cook's Town until 1 June 1874.
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  • 11. Mount Cook National Park Cooktown
    Cedar Bay is a 56.5 km2 national park in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia.
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