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Northeast Cape York Peninsula supports Australia's largest areas of this highly diverse ecosystem. [7] The extensive wetlands on Cape York Peninsula are "among the largest, richest and most diverse in Australia". [37] 19 wetlands of national significance have been identified, mostly on the large floodplains and in coastal areas.
English: Map of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Drawn using Inscape . This image supercedes the similar File:Cyp ed 6.svg, by the addition of the 'Telegraph Track' and minor edits.
The original inhabitants of the Cape York were the Djagaraga peoples. [citation needed] Cape York was named by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of exploration along the eastern coast of Australia in 1770. He named it on 21 August 1770 "in honour of His Royal Highness, the Duke of York" referring to Prince Edward, Duke of York and ...
The Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna is a tropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion in northern Australia. It occupies the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland , mainland Australia's northernmost point. [ 2 ]
Cape Melville National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) is a national park in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. [1] The national park was previously named Cape Melville National Park until it was renamed on 28 November 2013.
The Cape York International Spaceport was an abandoned 20th century proposal to build the world's first commercial spaceport in Australia's Cape York Peninsula. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The plan was announced in 1986 by then-Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen , who confiscated Indigenous Australian land in Far North Queensland for the spaceport's ...
Kutini-Payamu (Iron Range) is a National Park located in Queensland, Australia, 1,940 kilometres (1,210 mi) northwest of Brisbane and 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of Weipa in the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.
Coen is a rural town and coastal locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. [3] [4] The town of Coen is inland on the Peninsula Developmental Road, the main road on the Cape York Peninsula in far northern Queensland.