Captain Cook Highway
Winding coastal route linking beaches and rainforest-backed headlands north toward Port Douglas.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Captain Cook Highway in Cairns traces one Sunday evening in June of seventeen seventy, when Lieutenant James Cook sailed this exact stretch of coast on the Endeavour and named Trinity Bay after the holiday on the calendar. It follows what his voyage was really doing here, behind its official cover of timing the planet Venus from Tahiti, and the ordinary night two days later that turned a routine survey into one of the era's most storied voyages of discovery. Listen for the headlands Cook named as you pass them today.
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