- Source: Endeavour River National Park
Endeavour River National Park is a national park in Queensland, Australia, gazetted to protect and preserve some of the natural and cultural resources in and around the mouth of the Endeavour River, immediately north of the small town of Cooktown. The park is located 1,561 kilometres (970 mi) northwest of Brisbane.
Naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander collected specimens of local 'Australian' flora in 1770 from this area which were taken back to the Royal Botanic Gardens in England. Sydney Parkinson first illustrated local Australian Aboriginal people encountered nearby, plus flora collected and fauna seen; and kangaroos were first given their modern English name (borrowing from the local Guugu Yimithirr language).
HM Bark Endeavour, under the command of Lieutenant James Cook, had struck reefs and been pulled ashore for repairs along the river locally known within Guugu Yimithirr as Wabalumbaal, possibly near the present site of Cooktown. The river was renamed on James Cook's charts as the Endeavour River, after Endeavour, and the current National Park appears, in turn, to be named after the river.
The present National Park contains coastal dunes, freshwater wetlands, mangrove forests, heathlands, tropical woodlands and the estuary plus parts of the Endeavour River catchment. It is mostly accessible by boat only, and still contains flora and fauna species of the kind collected and illustrated back in 1770.
See also
Captain Cook mythology: Australia
Protected areas of Queensland
References
External links
Map showing area and location of Endeavour River National Park near Cooktown
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Sungai Endeavour
- Teluk Botany
- Broken Bay
- St George, Sydney
- Daftar taman nasional di Australia
- Atom
- Endeavour River National Park
- Endeavour River
- Staaten River National Park
- Russell River National Park
- Hull River National Park
- Hope Islands National Park
- Auburn River National Park
- Mooloolah River National Park
- Cape Hillsborough National Park
- List of national parks of Australia
