Yorkeys Knob
Rounded coastal hill and beach suburb named for a beche-de-mer fisherman's nickname.
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This guide to Yorkeys Knob, a beach suburb north of Cairns, follows George Lawson, the Yorkshire-born fisherman known as Yorkey whose camp gave the place its name. It centers on a June morning in eighteen eighty-six, when a husband and wife rowed out from this beach toward Green Island to see a shipwreck, meaning to be home by dark. The guide also touches on the beche-de-mer trade that first drew fishermen to this coast in the eighteen sixties. Best heard looking out toward Green Island, low on the horizon.
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