Clown Fish

Cairns, Australia - The Great Barrier Reef

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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 ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more