Cook's Landing Place, Town of Seventeen Seventy, Historical landing site at Round Hill Creek, Queensland, Australia.
Cook's Landing Place is a heritage-listed site at Round Hill Creek in Seventeen Seventy, Queensland. The landing spot lies near the present caravan park, where a stream enters the beach just north of remaining mangroves. Round Hill Head, a granite bluff 54 metres above sea level, marks the north-west extreme of Hervey Bay.
Lieutenant James Cook and his crew aboard HMS Endeavour made their first Queensland landing here on May 24, 1770. This moment marked the beginning of European exploration of this region of the Australian east coast.
The site marks a point of early contact between European explorers and the Aboriginal peoples of the Australian coast. Visitors can trace this historical connection through markers and information displayed on location today.
The landing site lies near the present caravan park, where a stream at the southern end enters the beach just north of the remaining mangroves. Round Hill Head, the granite bluff at 54 metres, is the landmark to orient by. The Joseph Banks Conservation Park covers about 114 hectares but does not take in Cook's actual landing site.
The woods behind Round Hill Head and beside Round Hill Creek yielded the first botanical type-specimens collected in Queensland, gathered during Joseph Banks' excursion ashore. The area was gazetted as Joseph Banks Environmental Park in 1989, covering about 114 hectares, though it excluded Cook's actual landing site.
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