Where did explorer James Cook make his second landing in Australia?

Cook's first landing was on Sunday 29th April 1770 in the bay known as Botany Bay in Sydney, New South Wales.

On 24 May 1770 (written Seventeen Seventy) Captain James Cook accompanied by botanist Joseph Banks landed on a beach in the state which is now known as Queensland. Cook and his crew in the barque HMS Endeavour on that voyage made eleven landings on the eastern seaboard ten of which were in Queensland.

Cook noted that the countryside was "visibly worse" than Botany Bay. He described it as dry with sandy soils, woods free of undergrowth with the same sort of "birch" tree (coastal ironbark). Mangroves skirted the lagoon and palm trees grew on low, barren, sandy spaces. He also noted birdlife of bustards and black and white ducks as well as small crustaceans.

Botanist Joseph Banks noted the great variety of plants even though the plant cover was not thick.

The tiny settlement of 1770 which adjoins Agnes Waters and is 480 km (300 ml) north of Brisbane, has a population from the 2011 census of just 79 residents. Despite its size, the community of Seventeen Seventy hold a re-enactment of this historic landing each year as part of the 1770 Festival held in May,