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In 1605, the Dutch navigator Jansz landed near the town of Weipa on the western shore of Cape York.

It is possible that the Spanish explorer, Torres saw the Queensland coast at the tip of Cape York in 1614, when he sailed through the Torres Strait which was named after him.

In 1768 the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville sailed west from the New Hebrides islands, getting to within a hundred miles of the Queensland coast. He did not reach the coast because he did not find a passage through the coral reefs, and turned back.

Captain Cook (he was actually a Lieutenant and became a Captain after his return to England) sailed past the Queensland coast in 1770. He sailed past and named Stradbroke and Morton (now Moreton Island) islands, the Glasshouse mountains, Double Island Point, Wide Bay, Hervey Bay and the Great Sandy Cape, now called Fraser Island. His second landfall in Australia was at Round Hill Head, 500km north of Brisbane. His ship, the Endeavour was grounded on a coral reef which was part of the Great Barrier Reef near Cape Tribulation, on June 11, 1770. [1] The trip was delayed for almost seven weeks while they repaired the ship. This occurred where Cooktown now lies, on the Endeavour River, both places obviously named after the incident. On 22 August the Endeavour reached the tip of Queensland, which Cook named the Cape York Peninsula after the Duke of York