Duyfken
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Duyfken, also in the form Duifje or spelled Duifken or Duijfken, was a small ship built in the Dutch Republic. She was a fast, lightly armed ship probably intended for shallow water, small valuable ca
The 1999 replica of Duyfken in 2006
An 1886 illustration depicting how the artist imagined Duyfken in the Gulf of Carpentaria
The 1999 replica of Duyfken under sail around 2006
Decorated stern of Duyfken replica in Cooktown harbour in 2009
Cape York Peninsula
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The Cape York Peninsula is located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest wilderness in northern Australia. The land is mostly flat and about half of the area is used for grazing cattle
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…waters around False Cape (Irian Jaya) and then continuing east-southeast. In early 1606, Janszoon encountered and then charted the shores of Australia's Cape York Peninsula. The ship made landfall at the Pennefather River in the Gulf of Carpentaria. This is the first authenticated sighting of Australia by Europeans, and…
Commemorative stone for Edmund B. C. Kennedy, unveiled at Cardwell, 1948. In 1848, Kennedy, Assistant-Surveyor of New South Wales, led an expedition to explore Cape York Peninsula.
The very tip of Cape York, known as Pajinka, from the air.
Sand dunes around Cape Flattery.
Jardine River, northern Cape York Peninsula, at the base of Cape York itself.