Cape York, Cooktown Travel Guide, North Queensland Australia.
The town declined rapidly in the first two decades of the twentieth century and by the 1950s it was almost a.
By the 1880s, its population peak, one-fifth of its residents were Chinese.
Cooktown grew rapidly as the nearest port for the Palmer River gold rush in the 1870s.
Cooktown, on the eastern coast of Cape York Peninsula, is 1600 km North of Brisbane and 650 km from Torres Strait.
Great Barrier Reef Environment Touristic Guide.
Cape York, Cooktown Travel Guide, North Queensland Australia