Reverend Johann Flierl establishes Cape Bedford Mission (Elim - first mission Far North Queensland).

Gold Rush Years circa 1882 creeks and waterholes were poisoned with cyanide. Opium distributed by the Chinese miners.

Reprisals of Mary Watson’s death, Mounted police and native troopers under Inspector Hervey Fitzgerald from Cooktown shot many innocent coastal Cape York people from three mainland groups in retaliation. None…

Cooktown, named after British Navigator Captain James Cook, was founded during the Palmer River gold rush. Its population reached 30,000, and it was declared a municipality in 1876, but after…

Queensland Native Police Force camps were established to further disperse the Guugu Yimithirr Nation. Twelve camps were set up in the region during this time (see frontierconflict.org for more information).

Cook reported the sighting of a strange animal which was: “of a light mouse colour and the full size of a Grey Hound, and shaped in every respect like one,…

Lieutenant James Cook anchored the HMS Endeavour at the mouth of the Endeavour River at the modern day Cooktown (Guugu Yimithirr Traditional land) for 7 weeks to repair the hull…