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To conclude the Cooktown gallery, another view of the estuary in which the saiing ship Endeavour was refuged for repairs after holing out on a coral reef in 1770.
As commentator Stan Grant has recently pointed out*, chance events here turned history. If Captain Cook and his crew perished after hitting the reef - as they very nearly did - Australia might not have become a British colony (and I might not be here telling you this story - though that's no justification for the events that followed).

* http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-25/stan-grant-captain-cook-indigenous-culture-statues-history/8843172