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TRAINING AREA/ RANGE WARNING NOTICE
Residents and visitors to areas surrounding the Enoggera Training Area are warned that it is a Defence live firing range and to expect periods of heightened noise volume.
The Training Area is generally described as the area to the northwest of Gallipoli Barracks bounded by Gimba St, Mitchelton, Yarrabee Rd, Keperra, Ashgrove Golf Course and Scenic Reserve, The Gap and Enoggera Creek, Ashgrove. The area is fenced with range warning signs displayed on the boundary.
Defence training includes firing practices with live ammunition, explosives, pyrotechnic devices and lasers that generally occur daily between 0700h – 1600h. Night time practices may occur and are generally completed before 2200h. A notification service for high noise periods is provided via text messaging. Please contact Range Control to register.
Unauthorised entry to the area is prohibited and exposes any trespasser to serious injury or death.
Unexploded ordnance from Defence activities is extremely dangerous and should not be handled. Persons found trespassing within the TA/range boundary will be prosecuted.
For inquiries regarding the Enoggera Training Area please contact the Range Control Officer on 07 3332 7456.
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MORE ABOUT CAPTAIN COOK . . .
Further to George Stoddart’s article on Captain Cook (Western Echo August 2020), Stanley Fleck - a close friend of our Patron Neil Lyons - has provided more information including a personal link to the Cook family.
The following information is part of an item provided by Stanley Fleck, and adds some little-known family details of the Cook family. This article will be presented in 2 parts.
THE COOK-FLECK CONNECTION
Captain James Cook was, without doubt, the finest navigator the world has even known. He had many achievements to his name, and whilst with The Royal Navy fought in Canada. He later went on to explore the South Seas and discovered New Zealand and Australia. His skills took his ships through dangerous and uncharted waters. His maps and charts made it possible for others to follow the many routes of discovery he made. Captain cook died in 1779 on the island of Hawaii where he was attacked by natives. He was buried at sea.
Captain Cook was born in Marton, Yorkshire on 27th October 1728.
His father was a Scotsman from a village near Kelso and he migrated to Yorkshire to become a farm worker. He met and married Grace Pace of Thornaby in 1725. James Cook was one of eight children from this marriage, having two brothers and five sisters.
At the age of 16, James Cook was apprenticed to work for a shopkeeper at Staithes in North Yorkshire. Although he was good at his job, he yearned for a life at sea and left after two years, moving to Whitby, where he was employed by Mr John Walker, a ship owner.
James was soon working on board coal carrying ships that sailed up and down the Eastern Coast of England. He was 18 when he started this job and was very ambitious.
At the age of 26, he volunteered for The Royal Navy, where he proved to be an excellent seaman and was promoted to Master two years after joining. Captain Cook had an illustrious career and discovered amongst other countries, New Zealand and Australia both of which he claimed for the British Crown.
Cook’s cottage in Yorkshire was dismantled stone by stone and shipped to Melbourne in Australia. Each stone was carefully numbered and the cottage was rebuilt exactly as it was. It is now a museum which attracts lots of British tourists. I donated a copy of Mrs Cook’s Last Will and Testament to the Captain Cook Museum in Melbourne.
There is also a new Captain Cook Museum in Marton, near Middlesborough in England and this is well worth a visit. Their telephone number is 0642 311211 and they will send you, on request, brochures and explanatory pamphlets.
