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Mount Mulgrave

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Located on the Mitchell River, 170 kilometres southwest of Cooktown, 157 kilometres west of Port Douglas, 201 kilometres west-northwest of Cairns and 500 kilometres north of Hughenden on the border between Kokomini and Kuku Yalanji Country in the Mareeba Shire, the outback locality and pastoral station of Mount Mulgrave take their names from the mountain William Hann named after the Earl of Mulgrave, son of the Queensland Governor George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby on 1 August 1872.


Sources:

• Wikipedia: Mount Mulgrave, Queensland

Trees at the foothills of Mount Mulgrave, 1936 (Henry George Fraser, John Oxley Library/State Library of Queensland; Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)