Cape Tribulation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named by Captain James Cook for the "tribulation" caused when his ship ran aground on a reef.
Proper noun[edit]
- A headland and coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas, northern Queensland, Australia.
- 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56:
- I live in a quintessential (Australian) building type myself - a high-set 'Queenslander' on Captain Cook's tropical Cape Tribulation coast - and some of the details I love most about it are its Deco influences - [...].