Cape Tribulation

Cape Tribulation Beach
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Deserted beach in the rain. The name of this place comes from the time when Captain Cook was exploring Oceania.
Wikipedia tells us:

Cape Tribulation was named by British navigator Lieutenant James Cook on 10 June 1770 (log date) after his ship scraped a reef north east of the cape, whilst passing over it, at 6pm. Cook steered away from the coast into deeper water but at 10.30pm the ship ran aground, on what is now named Endeavour Reef. The ship stuck fast and was badly damaged, desperate measures being needed to prevent it foundering until it was refloated the next day. Cook recorded “…the north point [was named] Cape Tribulation because here begun all our troubles”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Tribulation,_Queensland

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