Description:
At Hope Street, Grassy Hill Lookout, Cooktown, 4895.  This is a much visited monument by passers-by en route to the view from the top  of Grassy Hill.
The cairn of large cobble stones is surmounted by a kangaroo sculpture, with a plaque fixed on the front of the cairn.

History:
The monument was erected on his property by Mr Barrie Hunter,  as a tribute to his late German wife Gisela.   Barrie had taught Gisela the mail run, which she did alone on occasions through floods and other adversities, until her illness.  The people of Cooktown supported Gisela through her illness, and part of the reason for the monument was as a “Thank you” to the local people, and to the people of Australia.
Possibly erected around the 1990s, the original statue was vandalised, but replaced by Mr Hunter. 

Inscription:
On the plaque:

ENDEAVOUR RIVER JUNE 1770

LT. JAMES COOK AND THE MEN ON
H.M.S. ENDEAVOUR, WERE THE FIRST
EUROPEANS EVER TO SIGHT THE
KANGAROOS

“OBSERVED, AMAZED, DESCRIBED,
SKETCHED, SHOT, EATEN AND NAMED
KANGAROO!!”

WITH APPRECIATION, AUSTRALIA
GISELA HUNTER

GPS Coordinates:   -15.461088,  145.254764

References:
Cook’s Log, page 1986, vol. 25, no. 4 (2002)
Cook’s Log, page 10, vol. 29, no. 3 (2006)
Endeavour Lines, page 13, no.77 (Oct. 2021)
Website: http://monumentaustralia.org.au/display/103030-first-european-sighting-of-the-kangaroo
 

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