A POINTY Past
TO THOSE of us living in the big cities, Cape York may seem one of the last untouched wilderness areas of our nation, but it has a long and vital history with all the peoples of Australia. Cape York represents about one eighth of the area of Queensland – an area of about 234,000 square kilometres – almost equal in size to the state of Victoria.
At the very northern tip of the country, Cape York sits 150km south of our nearest neighbour, New Guinea, with a smattering of small islands in between. As such it is likely to be the first place on Australia reached by the southerly migration of
