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Nature 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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  • 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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  • 3. Great Northern Tours Cooktown
    The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest reef system, stretching along the East coast of Australia from the northern tip down to the town of Bundaberg, is composed of roughly 2,900 individual reefs and 940 islands and cays that stretch for 2,300 kilometres and cover an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres . The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia. A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. According to the 2014 report of the Australian Government's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority , says that climate change is the most significant environmental threat to the Great Barrier Reef, while the other major environmental pressures are listed as decreased water quality from land-based runoff, im...
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  • 6. 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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  • 7. 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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  • 8. 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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  • 10. Cooktown Botanical Gardens 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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