Mount Alexandra Lookout
Rainforest clifftop viewpoint over the Daintree River mouth, carrying two names centuries apart.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mount Alexandra Lookout above Cape Tribulation follows three names given to the same outcrop across two centuries: the disaster that made James Cook curse this coast in seventeen seventy, the Danish princess a Scottish surveyor honored a hundred years later, and the older Kuku Yalanji name that came before both. It traces how a shipwreck and a royal wedding each left their mark on the map here, and what the land itself was called long before either. Best heard while you take in the view out over the Daintree's mouth toward Port Douglas.
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