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    GPX (secondary coordinates) Cooktown is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. Cooktown is at the mouth of the Endeavour...
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  • Cooktown, Queensland is a town on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia. Cooktown may also refer to: Cooktown, Georgia, a...
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  • Cooktown is an unincorporated community in Miller County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. The first permanent settlement at Cooktown was made in 1883 by...
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  • Cooktown Airport (IATA: CTN, ICAO: YCKN) is an airport in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia and is the gateway to Cape York Peninsula. The airport is 7.5 km...
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    Dendrobium bigibbum, commonly known as the Cooktown orchid or mauve butterfly orchid, is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid in the family Orchidaceae....
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  • The Cooktown Independent was a newspaper published in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia. The Cooktown Independent was first published in Cooktown on 6 June...
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  • Cooktown is the former local government area for Cooktown in Far North Queensland, Australia. It existed from 1876 to 1932. On 3 April 1876, Cooktown...
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    Queensland, Australia. It runs for approximately 266 km between Mareeba and Cooktown, on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula where it terminates. It is signed...
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  • Cooktown is an unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It is located off Dranesville Road along Folly Lick Branch stream....
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  • Catholic priest in Queensland, Australia. He was the Vicar Apostolic of Cooktown (a precursor role of Bishop of Cairns) from 28 March 1898 to his death...
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    butterfly species. Other common names include Cooktown birdwing and northern birdwing. The names Cairns and Cooktown in its common name reference the Australian...
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    Cooktown Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at Charlotte Street, Cooktown, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1874 to 1920. It...
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    Cooktown Museum (formerly James Cook Historical Museum) is a heritage-listed former convent and school and now museum at Furneaux Street, Cooktown, Shire...
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    Building is a heritage-listed former bank building at 120 Charlotte Street, Cooktown, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Francis Drummond...
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  • Queensland Health is the public health system in Queensland, Australia, comprising sixteen statutory Hospital and Health Services (HHS'), the Department...
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  • Cooktown is an unincorporated community in Barren County, Kentucky, United States. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cooktown...
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    Cooktown, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1876 to 1877 by Henry J Meldrum and John Sullivan. It was also known as Cooktown Post...
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    Cooktown was proclaimed as a separate municipality on 3 April 1876 under the Municipal Institutions Act 1864. On 24 August 1932, the Town of Cooktown...
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    Bowen – Guthalungra 8: Townsville – Hughenden 9: Cairns – Mareeba 10: Cooktown – Laura 11: Normanton – Croydon In 1883 the Queensland government had decided...
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    Old Cooktown Hospital is a heritage-listed former public hospital and now Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall at May Street, Cooktown, Shire of Cook, Queensland...
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    non-motorised, self-reliant trails in the world, stretching 5,330 kilometres from Cooktown, Queensland, through New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory...
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    Britons. In 1959, the Cooktown Re-enactment Association first performed a re-enactment of Cook's 1770 landing at the site of modern Cooktown, Australia, and...
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    London. In 1893 there were branches in: Ayr, Cairns, Charters Towers, Cooktown, Herberton, Normanton, Rockhampton and Thursday Island and agencies at...
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    Grassy Hill Light, also known as Cooktown Light, is an active lighthouse located on Grassy Hill above Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, on the south side...
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  • The Northern Wet Tropics shadeskink or Cooktown shadeskink (Saproscincus lewisi) is a species of skink found in Queensland in Australia. Shea, G.; Hoskin...
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    gold boom a railway line was planned between Cooktown and the Palmer gold fields. By 1888 the Cooktown to Laura Railway had been built as far as Laura...
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    Botanic Reserve, incorporating Cooktown Botanic Gardens, is a heritage-listed botanic garden at Finch Bay Road, Cooktown, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia...
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    official bird emblem of Queensland, after many years on the Coat of Arms. The Cooktown orchid became known as Queensland's floral emblem in 1959, during celebrations...
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    the region is the city of Cairns. Other key population centres include Cooktown, the Atherton Tableland, Weipa, Innisfail and the Torres Strait Islands...
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  • Citizenship ceremony on beach near Cooktown, Queensland. 2012...
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