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The Endeavour River (Guugu Yimithirr
Guugu Yimithirr language

Guugu Yimithirr is an Australian Aboriginal languages, the traditional language of the Guugu Yimithirr people of Far North Queensland. Most of the speakers today live at the community of Hopevale, Queensland, about 46 km from Cooktown....
: Wabalumbaal) on Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Queensland Queensland, Australia. This remote peninsula is one of the last remaining wilderness areas on Earth....
 in Far North Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, was named in 1770 by Lt. James Cook
James Cook

Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
, R.N., after he was forced to beach his ship HM Bark Endeavour
HM Bark Endeavour

His Majesty's Bark Endeavour was a 10-gun Royal Navy barque commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his First voyage of James Cook, to Australia and New Zealand in 1769-71....
, after damaging it on a reef, for repairs in the river mouth.

Cook and his crew remained for almost 7 weeks and made contact with the local Guugu Yimithirr
Guugu Yimithirr people

The Guugu Yimithirr are an Indigenous Australians tribe of Far North Queensland, most of whom today live at Hopevale, Queensland , about 46 km from Cooktown by road....
 Aborigines
Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands and their descendants. Indigenous Australians are distinguished as either Australian Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, who currently together make up about 2.6% of Australia's population....
, while the naturalists Joseph Banks
Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, Order of the Bath, President of the Royal Society was an England Natural history, Botany and patron of the natural sciences....
 and Daniel Solander
Daniel Solander

Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander was a Sweden botanist.Solander was born in Pite?, Norrland, Sweden and was the son of a Lutheran principal....
 made extensive collections of native flora, while Sydney Parkinson
Sydney Parkinson

Sydney Parkinson was a Scotland Quaker, botanical illustrator and natural history artist.Parkinson was employed by Joseph Banks to travel with him on James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific in 1768....
 illustrated many of the flora and fauna of the region.

Modern Cooktown is located at the mouth of the Endeavour River.






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The Endeavour River (Guugu Yimithirr
Guugu Yimithirr language

Guugu Yimithirr is an Australian Aboriginal languages, the traditional language of the Guugu Yimithirr people of Far North Queensland. Most of the speakers today live at the community of Hopevale, Queensland, about 46 km from Cooktown....
: Wabalumbaal) on Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Queensland Queensland, Australia. This remote peninsula is one of the last remaining wilderness areas on Earth....
 in Far North Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, was named in 1770 by Lt. James Cook
James Cook

Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
, R.N., after he was forced to beach his ship HM Bark Endeavour
HM Bark Endeavour

His Majesty's Bark Endeavour was a 10-gun Royal Navy barque commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his First voyage of James Cook, to Australia and New Zealand in 1769-71....
, after damaging it on a reef, for repairs in the river mouth.

Cook and his crew remained for almost 7 weeks and made contact with the local Guugu Yimithirr
Guugu Yimithirr people

The Guugu Yimithirr are an Indigenous Australians tribe of Far North Queensland, most of whom today live at Hopevale, Queensland , about 46 km from Cooktown by road....
 Aborigines
Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands and their descendants. Indigenous Australians are distinguished as either Australian Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, who currently together make up about 2.6% of Australia's population....
, while the naturalists Joseph Banks
Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, Order of the Bath, President of the Royal Society was an England Natural history, Botany and patron of the natural sciences....
 and Daniel Solander
Daniel Solander

Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander was a Sweden botanist.Solander was born in Pite?, Norrland, Sweden and was the son of a Lutheran principal....
 made extensive collections of native flora, while Sydney Parkinson
Sydney Parkinson

Sydney Parkinson was a Scotland Quaker, botanical illustrator and natural history artist.Parkinson was employed by Joseph Banks to travel with him on James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific in 1768....
 illustrated many of the flora and fauna of the region.

Modern Cooktown is located at the mouth of the Endeavour River. It is the northernmost town on the East coast of Australia, and was founded in 1873, around the site of Cook's landing, as a port to service the newly discovered Palmer River Goldfields.

See also

  • Endeavour River National Park
    Endeavour River National Park

    Endeavour River National Park is a Queensland national park gazetted to protect and preserve some of the natural and cultural resources in and around the mouth of the Endeavour River, immediately north of the small town of Cooktown, Queensland....