Cooktown

From World travel guide

Cooktown is in Cook Shire in tropical north Queensland. In 1770, Captain James Cook spent 48 days here on the banks of the Endeavour River repairing his ship Endeavour, after it ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef. A century later, in 1873, it became the port for the Palmer River Goldfields. Today it is billed as the gateway to the wilderness. It offers Mountains, Outback terrain, as well as some of the top scuba diving around.

Contents 1 Get in 2 Get around 3 See 4 Do 5 Buy 6 Eat 7 Drink 8 Sleep 9 Get out

Get in

• Is 2,047 km on North Coastal Road or 2,137 km via Peninsula Road north of Brisbane, the State Capital.

• Is just over 300 km north, by road, from Cairns.

Get around

See

• Discovery Festival, Every June, where Cooktown celebrates Cook's landing with a re-enactment.

• James Cook Museum, documents Cook's voyages, Aboriginal and natural history, the gold rush and the legacy of the Chinese miners. The museum is housed in a former convent school that was built in 1888 and run by Irish nuns.

• Grassy Hill, Close to town, provides a view that Captain Cook could have seen.

Do

• Explore the beaches, bush and mountains on the 'Walking tracks

Buy

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Get out

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