Weipa , is the largest town on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast on Cape York Peninsula in Queensland (sometimes considered the 'Capital of Cape York'), Australia. It is a mining town of approximately 3,000 people that exists because of the enormous bauxite deposits along the coast.Weipa is just south of Duyfken Point, a location now agreed to be the first recorded point of European contact with the Australian continent. Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon, on his ship the Duyfken, sighted the coast here in 1606. This was 164 years before Captain James Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia.
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