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Cooktown attractions
Cooktown attractions
You can get a combined pass to the Natures Powerhouse and the Botanical Gardens, the Bank Museum, and the James Cook Museum.
Discovery Festival , Every June (on the June long weekend) Cooktown celebrates Cook's landing with a re-enactment.
James Cook Museum , documents Cook's voyages, Aboriginal and natural history, the gold rush and the legacy of the Chinese miners. The museum is housed in a former convent school that was built in 1888 and run by Irish nuns.
Bank Museum is run by the local historical society, and is a well presented history of the town.
Grassy Hill , Close to town, provides a view little changed from that Captain Cook could have seen. The sunsets from Grassy Hill are reknowned.
Remains of blacksmith shop and chinese well (Turn off Bichtumen onto Oakey Creek Rd about 20km along) at the oldest mango trees in Australia.
The concrete steps by the side of the river in the park were built for the arrival of the Queen in 1970, she disembarked there during her short but resounding visit to Cooktown.
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