Daintree

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Daintree is a name applying to a number of features in Far North Queensland. They include:

• Daintree, Queensland, a town in Queensland;
• the Daintree River, a river that runs from the Coast Range to the Pacific Ocean 24 kilometres south of Cape Tribulation;
• the Daintree Rainforest, nominated for the World Heritage List by the Australian Government in 1988;
• the Daintree National Park containing part of the Daintree Rainforest; and
• the Daintree Reef, off the Pacific Ocean coast from the Daintree Rainforest.

These features all take their name from Richard Daintree, a pioneering geologist in North Queensland.