Cape Palmerston
Named after Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston, by James Cook on 1 June 1770, Cape Palmerston "forms the North-West Entrance into Broad Sound ... Between this Cape and Cape Townshend lies the Bay of Inlets, so named from the Number of Inlets, Creeks, etc., in it.
Royal Navy hydrographer William Wharton, who edited Captain Cook's Journal during the First Voyage round the World, adds:
The name Bay of Inlets has disappeared from the charts. Cook applied it to the whole mass of bays in this locality, covering over 60 miles. A look at a modern chart causes amazement that Cook managed to keep his ship off the ground, as the whole sea in his track is strewed with dangers.
The Cape was subsequently used as the possible southern boundary for a separate colony in North Queensland.
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Broad Sound
Cape Townshend
Bay of Inlets
