Inside the museum

Cooktown

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August 14th 2010
There is a road from Cape Tribulation north called the Bloomfield track which keeps more to the coast, however it's strictly for 4 wheel drive vehicles. We took the longer, sealed highway, about a 300 kilometre trip to Cooktown. We left the lushness of the coast, over a mountain range and we were in the outback, dry and sparse with dry river beds, unfenced roads, roaming cattle. It was so nice t ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cooktown

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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