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Identifier: QueenslandRailwayAndTouristsGuide (find matches)
Title: Queensland Railway And Tourists Guide
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Archibald Meston
Subjects: State Library of Queensland Queensland Queensland Railways train travel tourist guide travel
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PINNACLE ROCK, CAIRNS LINE. Cairns Railway. Y c AIRNS is a township situated at the head of Trinity Bay, inlatitude 16.55 south, and longitude 145.49 east. This baywas named by Captain Cook, who passed it on Trinity Sunday, 1770.Steamers from the south, after passing between Cape Grafton andFitzroy Island, turn landward towards the west, and enter what isthe most commodious and best sheltered harbour on the Queenslandcoast. On a tine day the visitor will behold a magnificent scene onentering Trinity Bay, which runs in for five miles from the FairwayBuoy to the Cairns wharves, and a deep water inlet, like a largeriver, continues for eight miles beyond, running far back into theland. You enter a splendid amphitheatre of hills and mountains,extending from Cape Grafton on one side, right round to where therange dips into the ocean at Double Island on the other. Due west,to the right of a rock-faced mountain, called Boondamahlan bythe blacks, is the gorge through which the Barron River des

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