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.
- Town with about 2,750 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (40 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code CTN
- Description: town in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as“Cooktown, Queensland”“Cooktown, Queensland, Australia”
Places of Interest
Discover Cooktown Botanic Gardens.
Cooktown
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Latitude
-15.4727° or 15° 28′ 22″ south
Longitude
145.2534° or 145° 15′ 12″ east
UN/LOCODE
AU CTN
Open location code
5RP7G7G3+W9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Cooktown” goes by many names.
CooktownAfrikaans
كوكتاونArabic
ՔուքթաունArmenian
CooktownAsturian
CooktownBasque
Cooktown (Queensland)Basque
কুকটাউনBengali
CooktownCatalan
CooktownCebuano
КуктаунChechen
库克敦Chinese
庫克敦Chinese
CooktownCzech
CooktownDutch
쿡타운Korean
CooktownMalagasy
CooktownMalay
Cooktown, QueenslandMalay
कूकटाउनMarathi
کوکتاونPersian
CooktownPolish
КуктаунRussian
CooktownSlovak
CooktownSwedish
КуктаунUkrainian
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