Inside tip · Agnes Water & 1770
The Town of 1770 is named after the year of what event?
Answer: James Cook's landing
Seventeen Seventy marks Lieutenant James Cook's first Queensland landfall, in May 1770.
The town, about 5km north of Agnes Water, was formally named in 1936. Matthew Flinders had earlier called the headland Round Head.
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