NameCaptain Cook Park, Deception Bay (Qld.)Information
Captain Cook Park was named for Captain James Cook who explored the east coast of Australia in 1770 naming Morton Bay and the Glasshouse Mountains. With the Mayor The construction of a Captain Cook Memorial Park on the foreshore at Redcliffe is a co-operative effort by the Redcliffe City Council, the Redcliffe Bi-Centenary Commemoration Committee and the Whitby Urban District Council of Yorkshire, England. Also contributing to the project is a quarry at Grovely, the owners of which are donating two rocks, one of them seven feet high and weighing over eight tons, which will be used to construct a memorial cain. Following an approach to the Whitby Council the secretary of the Bi-Centenary Committee, Mrs. F. Hodgkinson, said she had been advised that a stone from the ruins of Whitby Abbey weighing about 84 lbs. should arrive at Brisbane by sea tomorrow and a bronze plaque will be air-freighted. The Whitby Council had been approached because Captain Cook was reared in the district, and it was from that port that his ship, the “Endeavour” was launched. The park will be officially opened on Sunday, May 24. [Redcliffe Herald, 22 April 1970, p23] -- Redcliffe : Looking at the landscape by Pat Gee acknowledging the work of Jack Stapleton and Pat Fields