A violent confrontation occurred in 1872 between local Yidinji people and Phillip Garland, a beche de mer fisherman, over the use of this well. Discover Wunyami (Green Island) with Traditional Owners | Cairns Travel Guide to Cairns, Queensland - Tourism Australia [31] These new residents, in turn, generated demand for opening up land to be used for agriculture, with a predominance of sugar cane on the lowlands, and fruit and dairy on the tableland. Read about the culture and history of the First Peoples of the Cairns area CRC Innovate Rap 2019 (463.0 KB) Guideline for preparation of food for sale by Pit Oven or Hungi (199.5 KB) [10] However, many of these old structures have yet to be properly explored, a process which would help shed further light on local history and facilitate their preservation for posterity. [154], On 5 November 2015 a 610-page history of Cairns entitled "Cairns City of the South Pacific: 17761995" was published. [87] Coinciding with the release of the royal tour movie, Bob Bolton released the first North Queensland tourist information guide, Displaying North Queensland in General and the Mulgrave Shire in Particular. "[14], In March 1876, three years after the Palmer River discovery, James Mulligan announced that an even larger and more extensive gold field had been found at the Hodgkinson River on the Atherton Tableland, 122 kilometres (76mi) west of Trinity Inlet. [20] On 7 October 1876, the Governor of Queensland, William Wellington Cairns, proclaimed the new northern port at Trinity Bay which was named Cairns in his honour. [58], In 1927, Cairns suffered widespread destruction from Cyclone Willis. [21], A large number of inuksuit have been built in some areas along the Trans-Canada Highway, including Northern Ontario. [6] Varying in shape and size, the inuksuit have ancient roots in Inuit culture. It was unveiled by her and ICC President Judge Silvia Fernndez de Gurmendi at the ICC premises in The Hague.[26]. In such a fashion, cairns would grow ever larger. [22], Cairns have been used throughout what is now Latin America, since pre-Columbian times, to mark trails. There is a pretty esplanade walkway and a narrow strip of sand but mostly Cairns has a busy estuary and salt water crocodiles, big ones. The shop's name refers to the black seahorses that were carried by the saltwater women of the Great Barrier Reef as a lucky charm. [19], In South Korea cairns are quite prevalent, often found along roadsides and trails, up on mountain peaks, and adjacent to Buddhist temples.