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The history of capeyork

pre 1700

Indigenous Australians lived happy lives until captain cook arrived. William Janszoon sailed the Duykfren boat on the west side on the cape.

Pre 1700

1770-180o

1770 to 1800 was a busy period in history of cape because Edmund Kennedy unsuccessfully attempted an overland expedition from sydney, the Jardine family succesfully drove cattle from rockhampton William Hann discovered gold in the rivers.

1700-1800

Edmund Kennedy

Edmund Besley Court Kennedy J. P. (5 September 1818 – December 1848) was an explorer in Australia in the mid nineteenth century. He was the Assistant-Surveyor of New South Wales, working with Sir Thomas Mitchell. Kennedy explored the interior of Queensland and northern New South Wales, including the Thomson River, the Barcoo River, Cooper Creek, and Cape York Peninsula.[1] He died in December 1848 after being speared by Aboriginal Australians in far north Queensland near Cape York.

Edmund Kennedy

James cook

In 1770 Lieutenant James Cook, captain of the ship the HMB Endeavour, climbed to the highest point of Possession Island and claimed the east coast of the Australian continent for Britain, naming it New South Wales.

James cook

1950-1972

During the post contact period(1950), geoligist Harry Evans discovered bauxite near the site of the orginal Weipa mission. Comalco was granted the mining lease and the legeslation did not copensate Aboriginal communties affected by the mining.

1950-1972

1950

Jan 30, 1950, Frank Sedgman Defeats Ken Mcgregor Feb 8, 1950, Petrol Rationing ends Apr 5, 1950, Filming starts in Australia Apr 27, 1950, Communist Party Outlawed

1950 events

The Wik vs Queensland decision in 1996, lead to the Laura Quinkan Dance Festival starting in the early 1980s,

The Overland Telegraph Line closing, and Apunipima Cape York Health Council being established in 1994

1972-2000

1972-2000

1960-1972

Mapoon residents being forcibly removed in 1963,

Weipa airport commencing operations in 1967, and/or

the township of Weipa being opened in 967.

1960-1972

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