Cape Tribulation

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Cape Tribulation

  1. A headland and coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas, northern Queensland, Australia.
    • 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56:
      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 - [...].
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