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Cape Tribulation

Cape Tribulation proper noun: a headland and coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas, northern Queensland, Australia.

Proper noun

Cape Tribulation

  1. A headland and coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas, northern Queensland, Australia.
    • I live in a quintessential (Australian) building type myself - a high-set 'Queenslander' on Captain Cook's tropical Cape Tribulation coast - and some of the details I love most about it are its Deco influences - [...].2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56

Origin of Cape Tribulation

Named by Captain James Cook for the "tribulation" caused when his ship ran aground on a reef.

Questions about Cape Tribulation

What does Cape Tribulation mean?
Cape Tribulation means a headland and coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas, northern Queensland, Australia.
What part of speech is Cape Tribulation?
Cape Tribulation is a proper noun.

Words near Cape Tribulation in the dictionary

  1. Cape teals
  2. Cape Town
  3. Cape Towner
  4. Cape triangle
  5. Cape triangles
  6. Cape Tribulation
  7. Cape tulip
  8. Cape Verde
  9. Cape Verde Time
  10. Cape Verdean
  11. Cape Verdean Creole

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