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This article is about the peninsula located in the Australian state of Queensland; it should not be confused with either Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, or Cape York, Greenland.
Cape York Peninsula is a
peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia.
Cape York is at the tip of the peninsula and is the northernmost point on the Australian continent. It was named by Lt.
James Cook in
1770 after His Royal Highness the Duke of York and Albany.
From the tip, it is about 140 kilometres to
New Guinea across the island-studded
Torres Strait. The west coast borders the
Gulf of Carpentaria and the east coast borders the Coral Sea. Cape York Peninsula is approximately 137,000 km² in area and it has a population of about 18,000, of which a large percentage are Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
Landforms
Geographically, it is an extremely eroded, almost level plain, with some very low hills on the eastern side. The highest of these form the
Iron Range National Park, noted for its unusual tropical rainforests. These support species, including the Eclectus Parrot and
Southern Common Cuscus, also found in
New Guinea.
The soils are remarkably infertile even compared to other areas of Australia, being almost entirely
laterite and in most cases so old and weathered that very little development is apparent today (classified in
USDA soil taxonomy as Orthents). It is because of this extraordinary soil poverty that the region is so thinly settled: the soils are so unworkable and unresponsive to
fertilizers that attempts to grow commercial crops have usually failed.
The lowlands of the western side of the peninsula are dominated by winding, slow-flowing rivers, which empty into the Gulf of Carpentaria, including the Mitchell, Staaten, and Gilbert-Einasleigh Rivers.
Climate
The climate on Cape York Peninsula is tropical and monsoonal, with a wet season extending from November to April and a dry season from May to October. The temperature across it is warm to hot, with a cooler climate in higher areas. The mean annual temperatures range from 18 Celsius at higher elevations to 27 Celsius on the lowlands in the far south-west. Temperature over 40
Celsius and below 5 °C are rare.
Annual rainfall is high, ranging from over 2000 mm. in the Iron Range and north of Weipa to about 700 mm. at the southern border. Almost all this rain falls between November and April, and only on the eastern slopes of the Iron Range is the
median rainfall between June and September above 5mm (0.2 inches). Between January and March, however, the median monthly rainfall ranges from about 170mm (6.5 inches) in the south to over 500mm (20 inches) in the north and on the Iron Range.
There are many rivers, amongst them the Endeavour River, Annan River,
Bloomfield River, Pascoe River,
Jardine River, Wenlock River,
Archer River, Holroyd River,
Mitchell River, Queensland, and Staaten River. In fact, Cape York Peninsula contributes as much as a quarter of Australia's surface
runoff (water). Indeed, with only about 2.7 percent of Australia's land area it produces more runoff than all of Australia south of the
Tropic of Capricorn.
General Information
A completely sealed inland road links
Cairns and the
Atherton Tableland to
Lakeland, Queensland and Cooktown, Queensland. The road north of Lakeland Downs to the tip of the Peninsula is sometimes cut after heavy rains during the wet season (roughly December to May). Cape York is a popular destination from May to October for 4WD enthusiasts who come to test their driving skills and their vehicles on the remaining sections of the Overland Telegraph Track.
It is 430 km from the Bloomfield River, in the southeast, across to the west coast (just south of
Kowanyama, Queensland), and some 660 km from the southern border of Cook Shire, to the tip of Cape York.
Some of the world's most extensive and ancient rock painting galleries surround the tiny town of Laura, Queensland, some of which are available for public viewing. There is also an impressive new Interpretive Centre from which information on the rock art and local Indigenous Australians culture is available and tours can be arranged.
There are extensive deposits of bauxite along the west or Gulf of Carpentaria coast. Weipa, Queensland is the centre for this mining activity.
Although much of the Cape is sparsely populated, there are settlements at Cooktown, Queensland, Lakeland, Queensland,
Laura, Queensland,
Coen, Queensland, and
Weipa, Queensland, and Aboriginal communities at
Wujal Wujal,
Hopevale, Queensland,
Lockhart River, Queensland,
Injinoo, New Mapoon, Umagico,
Old Mapoon,
Napranum, Aurukun,
Pormparaaw, and Kowanyama, Queensland. Torres Strait Islander communities on the mainland are Bamaga and
Seisia.
The main industries are tourism,
mining,
fishing and cattle.
References
- Hough, Richard. 1994. Captain James Cook: a biography. Hodder and Stroughton, London. ISBN 0-340-58598-6.
- Pike, Glenville. 1979. Queen of the North: A Pictorial History of Cooktown and Cape York Peninsula. G. Pike. ISBN 0-9598960-5-8.
- Moon, Ron & Viv. 2003. Cape York: An Adventurer's Guide. 9th edition. Moon Adventure Publications, Pearcedale, Victoria. ISBN 0-9578766-4-5
- Moore, David R. 1979. Islanders and Aborigines at Cape York: An ethnographic reconstruction based on the 1848-1850 'HMS Rattlesnake (1822)' Journals of Oswald Walters Brierly and information he obtained from Barbara Thompson. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Canberra. ISBN 0-85575-076-6 (hbk); 0-85575-082-0 (pbk). USA edition ISBN 0-391-00946-X (hbk); 0-391-00948-6 (pbk).
- Pohlner, Peter. 1986. gangaurru. Hopevale Mission Board, Milton, Queensland. ISBN 1-86252-311-8
- Trezise, P.J. 1969. Quinkan Country: Adventures in Search of Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Cape York. A.H. & A.W. Reed, Sydney.
- Trezise, Percy. 1973. Last Days of a Wilderness. William Collins (Aust) Ltd., Brisbane. ISBN 0-00-211434-8.
- Trezise, P.J. 1993. Dream Road: A Journey of Discovery. Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards, Sydney.
- Haviland, John B. with Hart, Roger. 1998. Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point. Crawford House Publishing, Bathurst.
- Premier's Department (prepared by Connell Wagner). 1989. Cape York Peninsula Resource Analysis. Cairns. (1989). ISBN 0-7242-7008-6.
- Roth, W.E. 1897. The Queensland Aborigines. 3 Vols. Reprint: Facsimilie Edition, Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, W.A., 1984. ISBN 0-85905-054-8
- Ryan, Michelle and Burwell, Colin, eds. 2000. Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland: Cooktown to Mackay. Queensland Museum, Brisbane. ISBN 0-85905-045-9 (set of 3 vols).
- Scarth-Johnson, Vera. 2000. National Treasures: Flowering plants of Cooktown and Northern Australia. Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery Association, Cooktown. ISBN 0-646-39726-5 (pbk); ISBN 0-646-39725-7 Limited Edition - Leather Bound.
- Sutton, Peter (ed). Languages of Cape York: Papers presented to a Symposium organised by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. (1976). ISBN 0-85575-046-4
- Wallace, Lennie. 2000. Nomads of the 19th Century Queensland Goldfields. Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton. ISBN 1-875998-89-6
- Wallace, Lennie. 2003. Cape York Peninsula: A History of Unlauded Heroes 1845-2003. Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton. ISBN 1-876780-43-6
- Wynter, Jo and Hill, John. 1991. Cape York Peninsula: Pathways to Community Economic Development. The Final Report of The Community Economic Development Projects Cook Shire. Cook Shire Council.
External links
- "Cape York 2003 Trip Report" Detailed trek notes including GPS points and photos.
- "A Cape to Adventure" A description of a 4WD journey to Cape York by Roderick Eime
- Cooktown and Cook Shire official website
- Nature's PowerHouse in Cooktown's Botanic Gardens.
image:Cape_York_Peninsula.jpg
This article is about the peninsula located in the Australian state of Queensland; it should not be confused with either Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, or Cape York, Greenland.
Cape York Peninsula is a
peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia.
Cape York is at the tip of the peninsula and is the northernmost point on the Australian continent. It was named by Lt.
James Cook in
1770 after His Royal Highness the Duke of York and Albany.
From the tip, it is about 140 kilometres to
New Guinea across the island-studded Torres Strait. The west coast borders the Gulf of Carpentaria and the east coast borders the
Coral Sea. Cape York Peninsula is approximately 137,000 km² in area and it has a population of about 18,000, of which a large percentage are Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
Landforms
Geographically, it is an extremely eroded, almost level plain, with some very low hills on the eastern side. The highest of these form the
Iron Range National Park, noted for its unusual tropical
rainforests. These support species, including the
Eclectus Parrot and Southern Common Cuscus, also found in New Guinea.
The soils are remarkably infertile even compared to other areas of Australia, being almost entirely laterite and in most cases so old and weathered that very little development is apparent today (classified in
USDA soil taxonomy as Orthents). It is because of this extraordinary soil poverty that the region is so thinly settled: the soils are so unworkable and unresponsive to fertilizers that attempts to grow commercial crops have usually failed.
The lowlands of the western side of the peninsula are dominated by winding, slow-flowing rivers, which empty into the Gulf of Carpentaria, including the Mitchell, Staaten, and Gilbert-Einasleigh Rivers.
Climate
The climate on Cape York Peninsula is tropical and
monsoonal, with a wet season extending from November to April and a dry season from May to October. The temperature across it is warm to hot, with a cooler climate in higher areas. The mean annual temperatures range from 18 Celsius at higher elevations to 27
Celsius on the lowlands in the far south-west. Temperature over 40
Celsius and below 5
°C are rare.
Annual rainfall is high, ranging from over 2000 mm. in the Iron Range and north of Weipa to about 700 mm. at the southern border. Almost all this rain falls between November and April, and only on the eastern slopes of the Iron Range is the
median rainfall between June and September above 5mm (0.2 inches). Between January and March, however, the median monthly rainfall ranges from about 170mm (6.5 inches) in the south to over 500mm (20 inches) in the north and on the Iron Range.
There are many
rivers, amongst them the
Endeavour River,
Annan River,
Bloomfield River,
Pascoe River, Jardine River, Wenlock River,
Archer River, Holroyd River, Mitchell River, Queensland, and Staaten River. In fact, Cape York Peninsula contributes as much as a quarter of Australia's surface runoff (water). Indeed, with only about 2.7 percent of Australia's land area it produces more runoff than all of Australia south of the
Tropic of Capricorn.
General Information
A completely sealed inland road links
Cairns and the
Atherton Tableland to
Lakeland, Queensland and
Cooktown, Queensland. The road north of Lakeland Downs to the tip of the Peninsula is sometimes cut after heavy rains during the wet season (roughly December to May). Cape York is a popular destination from May to October for 4WD enthusiasts who come to test their driving skills and their vehicles on the remaining sections of the Overland Telegraph Track.
It is 430 km from the Bloomfield River, in the southeast, across to the west coast (just south of Kowanyama, Queensland), and some 660 km from the southern border of Cook Shire, to the tip of Cape York.
Some of the world's most extensive and ancient rock painting galleries surround the tiny town of
Laura, Queensland, some of which are available for public viewing. There is also an impressive new Interpretive Centre from which information on the rock art and local Indigenous Australians culture is available and tours can be arranged.
There are extensive deposits of bauxite along the west or
Gulf of Carpentaria coast. Weipa, Queensland is the centre for this mining activity.
Although much of the Cape is sparsely populated, there are settlements at
Cooktown, Queensland,
Lakeland, Queensland, Laura, Queensland, Coen, Queensland, and
Weipa, Queensland, and Aboriginal communities at
Wujal Wujal, Hopevale, Queensland,
Lockhart River, Queensland,
Injinoo,
New Mapoon, Umagico, Old Mapoon,
Napranum, Aurukun,
Pormparaaw, and
Kowanyama, Queensland.
Torres Strait Islander communities on the mainland are
Bamaga and Seisia.
The main industries are
tourism, mining,
fishing and cattle.
References
- Hough, Richard. 1994. Captain James Cook: a biography. Hodder and Stroughton, London. ISBN 0-340-58598-6.
- Pike, Glenville. 1979. Queen of the North: A Pictorial History of Cooktown and Cape York Peninsula. G. Pike. ISBN 0-9598960-5-8.
- Moon, Ron & Viv. 2003. Cape York: An Adventurer's Guide. 9th edition. Moon Adventure Publications, Pearcedale, Victoria. ISBN 0-9578766-4-5
- Moore, David R. 1979. Islanders and Aborigines at Cape York: An ethnographic reconstruction based on the 1848-1850 'HMS Rattlesnake (1822)' Journals of Oswald Walters Brierly and information he obtained from Barbara Thompson. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Canberra. ISBN 0-85575-076-6 (hbk); 0-85575-082-0 (pbk). USA edition ISBN 0-391-00946-X (hbk); 0-391-00948-6 (pbk).
- Pohlner, Peter. 1986. gangaurru. Hopevale Mission Board, Milton, Queensland. ISBN 1-86252-311-8
- Trezise, P.J. 1969. Quinkan Country: Adventures in Search of Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Cape York. A.H. & A.W. Reed, Sydney.
- Trezise, Percy. 1973. Last Days of a Wilderness. William Collins (Aust) Ltd., Brisbane. ISBN 0-00-211434-8.
- Trezise, P.J. 1993. Dream Road: A Journey of Discovery. Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards, Sydney.
- Haviland, John B. with Hart, Roger. 1998. Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point. Crawford House Publishing, Bathurst.
- Premier's Department (prepared by Connell Wagner). 1989. Cape York Peninsula Resource Analysis. Cairns. (1989). ISBN 0-7242-7008-6.
- Roth, W.E. 1897. The Queensland Aborigines. 3 Vols. Reprint: Facsimilie Edition, Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, W.A., 1984. ISBN 0-85905-054-8
- Ryan, Michelle and Burwell, Colin, eds. 2000. Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland: Cooktown to Mackay. Queensland Museum, Brisbane. ISBN 0-85905-045-9 (set of 3 vols).
- Scarth-Johnson, Vera. 2000. National Treasures: Flowering plants of Cooktown and Northern Australia. Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery Association, Cooktown. ISBN 0-646-39726-5 (pbk); ISBN 0-646-39725-7 Limited Edition - Leather Bound.
- Sutton, Peter (ed). Languages of Cape York: Papers presented to a Symposium organised by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. (1976). ISBN 0-85575-046-4
- Wallace, Lennie. 2000. Nomads of the 19th Century Queensland Goldfields. Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton. ISBN 1-875998-89-6
- Wallace, Lennie. 2003. Cape York Peninsula: A History of Unlauded Heroes 1845-2003. Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton. ISBN 1-876780-43-6
- Wynter, Jo and Hill, John. 1991. Cape York Peninsula: Pathways to Community Economic Development. The Final Report of The Community Economic Development Projects Cook Shire. Cook Shire Council.
External links
- "Cape York 2003 Trip Report" Detailed trek notes including GPS points and photos.
- "A Cape to Adventure" A description of a 4WD journey to Cape York by Roderick Eime
- Cooktown and Cook Shire official website
- Nature's PowerHouse in Cooktown's Botanic Gardens.
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