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COOKTOWN , a seaport of Banks county, Queensland, Australia, at the mouth of the Endeavour river, about 1050 M. direct N.N.W. of Brisbane. It is visited by the ocean steamers of several lines, and is the centre of a very extensive beche-de-mer and pearl fishery
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jurisdiction over the whole of Queensland north of lat. 18 50'. In 1770 Captain Cook here beached his ship the " Endeavour," to repair the damage caused by her striking a reef in the neighbourhood of the estuary, which he could only clear by throwing his guns overboard. Cooktown became a municipality in 1876. The population of the town and district
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