Cooktown
Cooktown is a small coastal town in tropical north Queensland. In 1770 Captain James Cook landed on the banks of the Endeavour River repairing his ship Endeavour, after it ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Peter Campbell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 1,800 residents
- Description: town in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Cooktown, Queensland” and “Cooktown, Queensland, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cooktown Botanic Gardens.
Cooktown
- Category: locality
- Location: Shire of Cook, Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-15.4727° or 15° 28′ 22″ southLongitude
145.2534° or 145° 15′ 12″ eastPopulation
1,800Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)IATA airport code
CTNUnited Nations Location Code
AU CTNOpen location code
5RP7G7G3+W9OpenStreetMap ID
node 248103256OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2170658Wikidata ID
Q1020734
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Cooktown” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Cooktown”
- Arabic: “كوكتاون”
- Armenian: “Քուքթաուն”
- Asturian: “Cooktown”
- Basque: “Cooktown (Queensland)”
- Basque: “Cooktown”
- Catalan: “Cooktown”
- Cebuano: “Cooktown”
- Chinese: “库克敦”
- Chinese: “庫克敦”
- Czech: “Cooktown”
- Dutch: “Cooktown”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوكتاون”
- Esperanto: “Cooktown”
- French: “Cooktown”
- German: “Cooktown”
- Italian: “Cooktown”
- Japanese: “クックタウン”
- Korean: “쿡타운”
- Malagasy: “Cooktown”
- Malay: “Cooktown, Queensland”
- Malay: “Cooktown”
- Marathi: “कूकटाउन”
- Persian: “کوکتاون، کوئینزلند”
- Persian: “کوکتاون”
- Polish: “Cooktown”
- Portuguese: “Cooktown”
- Russian: “Куктаун”
- Spanish: “Cooktown”
- Swedish: “Cooktown”
- Ukrainian: “Куктаун”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cooktown”. Photo: Peter Campbell, CC BY-SA 3.0.