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    Old Cooktown Hospital is a heritage-listed former public hospital and now Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall at May Street, Cooktown, Shire of Cook, Queensland...
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    GPX (secondary coordinates) Cooktown is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. Cooktown is at the mouth of the Endeavour...
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    present site from Cooktown in 1920. It was owned by Janet Abercombie Herries, a nurse and midwife, who ran it as a private hospital from 1921 to 1938...
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    1939 several suspected Hansen's disease cases from Thursday Island and Cooktown had been sent to Fantome Island, while further cases were present on Palm...
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  • of the Northern Territory police." A 40-year-old Newcastle man falls into the Annan River near Cooktown, Queensland while walking along the riverbank...
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    Britons. In 1959, the Cooktown Re-enactment Association first performed a re-enactment of Cook's 1770 landing at the site of modern Cooktown, Australia, and...
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    Tribulation and 60 kilometres (37 mi) south of Cooktown. Access to the community is via sealed road from Cooktown, or by the Bloomfield Track, an unsealed road...
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    official bird emblem of Queensland, after many years on the Coat of Arms. The Cooktown orchid became known as Queensland's floral emblem in 1959, during celebrations...
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    town is about 400 kilometres (250 mi) from the shire's headquarters in Cooktown, about a 6.5 hour drive. Moojeeba is a town in the south-east of the locality...
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    with ptosis, nausea, and difficulty breathing, and was conveyed to Cooktown Hospital. A doctor visiting the area on holiday treated him with fluids, and...
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