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Indigenous Australians lived happy lives until captain cook arrived. William Janszoon sailed the Duykfren boat on the west side on the cape.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Mapoon residents being forcibly removed in 1963,
Weipa airport commencing operations in 1967, and/or
the township of Weipa being opened in 967.
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