Cooktown was awarded Queensland’s Tidiest Town title in 2014 by Keep Queensland Beautiful. Cooktown is currently a 4-star* Queensland Tidy Town. *Tell us what you think of Cooktown by voting in the poll below – you can give a 1 to 5 star rating. History and Geography Facts 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 (431 met

Yungaburra is currently a 4-star accredited Queensland Tidy Town. You can tell us what you think by voting in the poll. https://www.trc.qld.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/Yungaburra-Town-Entry-Sign-scaled.jpg History and Geography Facts Established in 1890, Yungaburra (originally Allumbah Pocket), takes its name from the language of the Yidinji Aboriginal people. It is said to mean meeting place, a place of enquiring or questioning. Prior to European settlement the area around Yu

Thursday Island is currently a 2-star accredited Queensland Tidy Town. You can tell us about your experience visiting Thursday Island by voting in the online poll or leaving a comment below. History and Geography Facts The original place of permanent European settlement in Torres Strait was Somerset, south-east of the tip of Cape York Peninsula, established in 1864. However, the channel between Albany Island and Somerset proved to be hazardous for a port and in 1875 it was j

Wujal Wujal is a small Aboriginal community on the Bloomfield River between Cape Tribulation and cooktown. https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/e07141dfb90e463353ded4f2e165e67f History and Geography Wujal Wujal, sometimes spelt Wudjil Wudjil, is a rural town and locality in the Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire, Queensland, Australia. It is an Aboriginal community. In the 2021 census, the locality of Wujal Wujal had a population of 276 people. The community of Wujal Wujal is loc