A Captain Cook at Cook's Look

By Keith Austin
Updated October 23 2017 - 12:08pm, first published 12:01pm

When, in August 1770, Lieutenant James Cook arrived at the little island towards the northern section of what we nowadays call the Great Barrier Reef, he and his men on board the HMS Endeavour found it almost uninhabited. Almost. His log reads: "The only land animals we saw here were lizards ??? which occasioned my naming the island Lizard Island."

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