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Premium Content Why Cook chose the name Whitsunday Passage

Cape Hillsborough, Slade Point and more: here’s how Captain Cook chose their names

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28th June 2020 8:06 PM

There were many reasons Lieutenant James Cook chose particular placenames including a desire to honour English aristocrats.

Premium Content How boaties will mark 250th anniversary of Cook’s trip

May 26 marks 250 years since James Cook sailed through The Keppels.

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19th May 2020 5:05 PM

Don Fee on board a replica of the Endeavour taken at the Australian Wood Boat festival in Hobart last year

Premium Content Learn about coral bleaching and conservation

A new program focuses on the Port Curtis and Keppel Bay marine environments and reef conservation.

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28th Feb. 2020 4:02 PM

Simone Boston, Lisa Del Riccio, Dr David Kopelke, Diana Kleine and Daniel Rae at the launch of the education package Capricorn Coast Corals at your Doorstep at CQUni Gladstone on Thursday