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The Daintree National Park is located in Far North Queensland, Australia, 1,757 km (1,092 mi) northwest of Brisbane and 100 km (62 mi) northwest of Cairns. It was founded in 1981 [ 2 ] and is part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland .
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Daintree Rainforest stretches 60 miles before giving way to golden beaches and the Great Barrier Reef. Visible from space, it’s 1,400 miles long and made up of 2,900 individual reefs and 900 ...
The locality takes its name from the valley Mossman Gorge created by the Mossman River through the Daintree National Park to the west of the locality (in Syndicate and Shannonvale). The Mossman Gorge Centre is the gateway to the valley which is a tourist attraction with a suspension bridge providing access to a 2.4-kilometre (1.5 mi) loop walk ...
Kuku Yalanji (also known as Gugu Yalanji, Kuku Yalaja, and Kuku Yelandji) is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Mossman and Daintree areas of North Queensland.The language region includes areas within the local government area of Shire of Douglas and Shire of Cook, particularly the localities of Mossman, Daintree, Bloomfield River, China Camp, Maytown, Palmer, Cape Tribulation and Wujal ...
One of the oldest living cultures, [4] dating back to the earliest human occupation of the continent around 50,000 years ago, [5] the Kuku Yalanji began to have their homeland occupied extensively by European colonisers in 1877, after the Australian government opened up this area to selection, [6] and as miners crowded into the area, where the Palmer River Gold Rush had been underway since ...
A suspect has been arrested after being identified pushing a car engulfed in fire 60 feet into a gully, “spreading flames that caused the Park Fire,” the Butte County District Attorney’s ...
Daintree River, flows into the Pacific Ocean south of Cape Tribulation; Daintree Rainforest, nominated for World Heritage listing in 1988; Daintree National Park, containing part of the Daintree Rainforest; Daintree Reef, off the coast from the Daintree Rainforest; Richard Daintree (1832–1878), pioneering geologist in North Queensland