Cape Flattery
Cape Flattery is a cape in northern Queensland approximately 40 kilometres north of Cooktown, Queensland. The headland was named by James Cook on 10 August 1770 as he charted the eastern Australian coast to acknowledge his misjudgement, believing the ship was "clear of all danger…but this we soon found otherwise".- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of around 50 metres (170 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code CQP
- Description: cape in northern Queensland, Australia
- Category: cape
- Location
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Latitude
-14.96132° or 14° 57′ 41″ south
Longitude
145.31551° or 145° 18′ 56″ east
UN/LOCODE
AU CQP
Open location code
5RQ728Q8+F6
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Cape Flattery” goes by many names.
弗拉特里角 (昆士蘭州)Chinese
Cape FlatteryDutch
フラタリー岬Japanese
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