Cape Tribulation is a headland and coastal
locality
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in the
Shire of Douglas
The Shire of Douglas is a Local government in Australia, local government area in Far North Queensland. It is located on the coast north of the city of Cairns, Queensland, Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mossman, Queensland, Mos ...
in northern
Queensland
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, Australia.
In the , Cape Tribulation had a population of 123 people.
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Geography
The locality is north of Cairns
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. It is within the Daintree National Park
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and the Wet Tropics
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area. It is within the local government area
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of Shire of Douglas
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(between 2008 and 2013, it was within the Cairns Region
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).
Cape Tribulation Bloomfield Road enters the locality from the south ( Thornton Beach) and exits to the north ( Bloomfield).
The locality contains a small number of bed and breakfast eco lodges, tourism resorts and backpacker hostels. A few very rare plants can be found on Cape Tribulation.
History
''Kuku Yalanji
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Language
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'' (also known as ''Gugu Yalanji'', ''Kuku Yalaja'', and ''Kuku Yelandji'') is an Australian Aboriginal language
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of the Mossman and Daintree areas of North Queensland
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. The language region includes areas within the local government area of Shire of Douglas
The Shire of Douglas is a Local government in Australia, local government area in Far North Queensland. It is located on the coast north of the city of Cairns, Queensland, Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mossman, Queensland, Mos ...
and Shire of Cook
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, particularly the localities of Mossman, Daintree, Bloomfield River
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Course and features
The river rises in the Great Dividing Range below Zig Zag and ...
, China Camp, Maytown, Palmer
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, Cape Tribulation and Wujal Wujal
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The comm ...
.
'' Yalanji'' (also known as ''Kuku Yalanji'', ''Kuku Yalaja'', ''Kuku Yelandji'', and ''Gugu Yalanji)'' is an Australian Aboriginal language
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of Far North Queensland
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. The traditional language region is Mossman River
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Geography
The headwaters of the river rise under Devils Thumb on the Mount Carbine Tableland in the Great Dividing Range. The river flows through a deeply in ...
in the south to the Annan River
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in the north, bordered by the Pacific Ocean
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in the east and extending inland to west of Mount Mulgrave. This includes the local government boundaries of the Shire of Douglas
The Shire of Douglas is a Local government in Australia, local government area in Far North Queensland. It is located on the coast north of the city of Cairns, Queensland, Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mossman, Queensland, Mos ...
, the Shire of Cook
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and the Aboriginal Shire of Wujal Wujal
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and the towns and localities of Cooktown
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, Mossman, Daintree, Cape Tribulation and Wujal Wujal
Wujal Wujal, sometimes spelt Wudjil Wudjil, is a rural town and locality in the Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire, Queensland, Australia. It is an Aboriginal community. In the , the locality of Wujal Wujal had a population of 276 people.
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. It includes the head of the Palmer River
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Course and features
The headwaters of the Palmer River rise in the Suss ...
, the Bloomfield River
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Course and features
The river rises in the Great Dividing Range below Zig Zag and ...
, China Camp, Maytown, and Palmerville.
Cape Tribulation was named by British navigator
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Lieutenant James Cook
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on 10 June 1770 (log date) after his ship scraped a reef north east of the cape, whilst passing over it, at 6pm. Cook steered away from the coast into deeper water but at 10.30pm the ship ran aground, on what is now named Endeavour Reef
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. The ship stuck fast and was badly damaged, desperate measures being needed to prevent it foundering until it was refloated the next day. Cook recorded "...the north point as namedCape Tribulation
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because "''here begun all our troubles''".
In the 1930s some European settlers
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started arriving in Cape Tribulation, but they found the rainforest environment an extremely challenging one within which to establish a settlement. Various ventures such as fruit and vegetable farming, fishing, cattle, and timber cutting were started and abandoned over the years, and having weekly barges as the only transport in and out was another limitation. In the 1960s a rough track was bulldozed
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and the first vehicle access created, although the road remained a four-wheel drive
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track until the early 1990s. In 2002, the road was finally sealed all the way to Cape Tribulation and in early 2011 the last bridge was built creating year round all weather access to Cape Tribulation for the first time.
In 1983, Cape Tribulation became widely known because of the blockade
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on the Bloomfield Track. Local government had decided to bulldoze a road through the rainforest north of Cape Tribulation to complete the coastal road to Cooktown
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. Protesters tried to stop the bulldozers and occupied trees to prevent their destruction. While wild scenes with a large police and media presence ensued at the southern end, the road was completed in three short weeks as the road builders approached from northern end and flanked the protestors. By now the state and federal governments had started to realise the value of this ancient rainforest and despite protests from the local council the forests surrounding Cape Tribulation were given World Heritage Listing in 1988.
Demographics
In the , Cape Tribulation had a population of 118 people.
In the , Cape Tribulation had a population of 123 people.
Education
There are no schools in Cape Tribulation. The nearest government primary schools are Bloomfield River State School in neighbouring Bloomfield to the north and Alexandra Bay State School in Diwan to the south. There are no government secondary schools nearby; the options are distance education
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and boarding school..
Climate
The average annual rainfall for Cape Tribulation is 3,900 mm.
Attractions
There are a number of lookouts in the locality, including:
* Mount Sorrow Ridge Trail Lookout ()
* Kulki Boardwalk Lookout ()
* Marrja Boardwalk Lookout ()
See also
* Tourism in Australia
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References
External links
Movies of Cape Tribulation and cassowaries
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Populated places in Far North Queensland
Tribulation
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At , "the Great Tribulation" () is used to indicate the period spoken of by Jesus. u ...
Localities in Queensland
Shire of Douglas
Landforms of Far North Queensland
Coastline of Queensland
Tourist attractions in Far North Queensland