Cooktown is a small town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. Cooktown is located about 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) north of Brisbane and 328 kilometres (204 mi) north of Cairns, by road. At the time of the 2011 census, Cooktown had a population of 2,339.
Cooktown is at the mouth of the Endeavour River, on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland where...