Cooktown
Pos S 15° 20' 35"
E 145° 14' 31"
With direct access from Europe, immigrants were attracted to the fortunes to be made by getting off at Cooktown. Whole families did so, in spite of the Wild West nature of the place, not to mention the unsanitary conditions.
Quite a few of these people got to stay, in the cemetery.
It is fascinating to record names here that appear further inland as the years march on, in different tmining towns, where different fortunes could be made. Maytown, on the Palmer, Thornborough, Herberton, Charters Towers, Ravenswood... Check the files and the old names constantly appear.
After the gold rush of the late 1880's, the town was a port for pearling vessels, until the larger part of the fleet was trapped in Princess Charlotte Bay in a fierce cyclone, and sunk. No doubt it will now rebound as a tourist target for the northern section of the reef, which is almost untouched by farm runoff, and the newly completed sealing of the road will bring a new kind of people t the hard, raw places...
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