Cape Tribulation Video
Thursday, August 14th, 2008“Where Land and The Great Barrier Reef Meet”
By: The OZtralia Producers
Cape Tribulation is in the Daintree National Park around 110km north of North Queensland’s Cairns. According to the Queensland government, this is one of the most biologically diverse areas in the world. As such, Cape Tribulation was added to the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area in 1988.
The government of Queensland notes the Kuku Yalanji people as being the traditional owners of Cape Tribulation. Captain James Cook was the first Westerner to land here in June 1770. Cook’s ship ran aground on a reef close by Cape Tribulation. The Great Barrier Reef is very close by. Locals say that this is the only place in the world where the Great Barrier Reef “and land meet.”
