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Charlotte Street, Cooktown, 1897

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Ever wondered what people did for fun in Cooktown at the turn of the 20th century?

BANANA EATING

COOKTOWN’S CHAMPION.

A TALE FROM THE PAST.

COOKTOWN, November 17.
The recent news items appearing in the newspapers of Australia, telling of the quantaties of bananas eaten by variou people, have aroused the Cooktown champion, Mr. Mick Feinn, to assert his rights and claim the title of champion banana eater.

Feinn ate over 13 dozen bananas inside three hours, the period including a couple of rests. The story of the contest, which is vouched for by several reliable residents of the district, is as follows:-

The late Harry Connors, hearing of a claim by a man in the South that he could eat more bananas than any one else, issued a challenge and said that he would back Mick Feinn for £50, or even £100, to eat bananas against any man in or

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Mt Widgee and Lost World, Lamington National Park, 1945

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From the Balonne Beacon, Thursday 28 January 1954:

THE LOST WORLD PLATEAU

HIGH in the volcanic wonderland of the Macpherson Range which seperates New South Wales from Queensland, is a jungle garden unsurpassed in wild beauty, a mountain fastness over part of which a white man has never walked.

Lamington National Park officially embraces 48,000 acres of the razorback ridges and deep broken gorges, but the surrounding forests almost double its effective area, while its heights overlook an area twice the size of Switzerland. To the north of Brisbane, the Glasshouse Mountains,a nd the Blackall Range, 130 miles away. On the south the valleys of the Tweed, Clarence and Richmond are laid out like a map, 4,000 feet below.

Over the whole of the Macphersons lies a volcanic crust, estimated to be 3500 feet deep. It is a basaltic deposit like that which covered Pompeii in 79 A.D. but

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