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Cooktown Cemetery - QLD

Cooktown Cemetery

Cemetery,Grave Site

Position

DEG: -15.47763 145.241302

DMS: 15º 28' 39.47" S 145º 14' 28.69" E

UTM: 55 L 8288072mN 311327mE

Altitude: 22m

Address & Contact

John St
Cooktown QLD 4895

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Information

Cooktown Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at Charlotte Street, Cooktown. It was built from 1874 to 1920. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 8 April 1997.
Cooktown Cemetery, with over 3,000 burials, has been in continuous use since soon after the town was established in October 1873.
Although gazettal was not until mid-1875 the site was used earlier; the oldest marked grave is that of Rev. Francis Tripp, an Anglican clergyman who died at Cooktown on 20 May 1874. Cemetery records date from 1875, with approximately 1830 burials recorded in the period 1877 to 1920.

PlaceID	121996

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Closest Weather Station

Cooktown at 02/01:00am EST

Distance from Cooktown Cemetery 6.87km NW

Temperature	Feels Like	Rel. Humidity	Dew Point	Pressure	Rainfall	Wind Direction	Wind Speed	Gusts
25.8°C	28.4°C	83%	22.7°C	1013.4hPa	0.0mm	SE	13km/hr 7knots	19km/hr 10knots

Closest Climatic Station

Cooktown Airport

Distance from Cooktown Cemetery 6.87km NW

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean Max. °C	31.8	31.6	30.4	29.1	27.7	26.7	26.1	27.0	28.8	30.4	31.5	32.2
Mean Min. °C	24.3	24.3	23.8	22.9	20.7	19.4	17.7	18.2	20.9	22.6	23.8	24.5
Mean Rain mm	280.3	295.7	390.8	156.7	36.6	28.5	21.8	17.6	7.2	24.6	71.0	154.0