Cairns, Australia - The Great Barrier Reef
February 12th 2010 A name you have heard numerous times already, Captain James Cook, sailed up the North Queensland coast on his first Voyage of Discovery in June 1770, aboard his ship the HM Bark Endeavour, and he mapped the future site of Cairns, naming it Trinity Bay. Cook was the first known European to visit the site where today’s City of Cairns is located. There is some dispute that the Dutch explorers were
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