Red Arrow Track
Steep rainforest trail climbing a bush-clad peak, marked by a single red arrow at its base.
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About this audio guide
This guide to a steep rainforest hiking trail up Mount Whitfield in Cairns follows the story behind the mountain's own name, given in eighteen seventy-three by an explorer honoring a merchant friend from Cardwell rather than the Yidinji people who already had a name for this land. It touches the same contact-era decade's tensions and the older name, Gimuy, that came before Whitfield's. Best heard at the trailhead, red arrow marker in view, before the switchbacks start.
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