Cape York
Towns
Alice River
Bairdsville
Blair's Camp
Blue Mountains
Bowden
Buthen Buthen
China Camp
Coco Creek
Collingwood
Degarra
Deighton River
Ebagoola
Eight Mile
Evandale
Four Mile Camp
Grass Tree
Hamilton
Imooya
Iron Range
Joyces
Klondyke
Kullul
Lower Camp
Lukin
Mein
Middle Oakey
Moojeeba
Mount Amos
Mount Hartley
Mount Leswell
Mount Romeo
Munburra
Normanby Crossing
Plutoville
Port Stewart
Rix's Camp
Rocky River
Scrub Camp
Shipton's Flat
Spence's Camp
Springfield
Starcke
Tableland
Tara Vale
Tin Creek
Violet Vale
Wenlock
Yarraden
Ebogoola - Cape York District
The town was surveyed in 1900 … after gold was discovered there by John Dickie and reported in January 1900 ………
Colin Hooper gives minute detail of the origns of the name, the details of the town, the people, the mines and the focus story is on the enigmatic John Dickie.
John Dickie, the Stringbark Fox is the feature story. He crossed Australia from Coolgardie to Cloncurry on horseback. From Cloncurry he made his way to the peninsula where he founded Ebagoola. A quiet pioneer whose greatest thrill was in the discovery, not the money ………