Cook

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Cook is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in Australia, covering a large and predominantly remote area in the state's far north, including Cape York and parts of the Torres Strait.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf electoral district
borderingBodyOfWater Coral Sea
Torres Strait
classification remote electorate
containsRegion Cape York Peninsula
Torres Strait Islands
containsTown Cooktown
Mareeba
Thursday Island
Weipa
country Australia
coversArea Cape York
linked to: Cape York Peninsula

parts of the Torres Strait
createdFor Queensland state elections
electoralCommission Electoral Commission of Queensland
electoralSystem optional preferential voting
elects one member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
governingLaw Electoral Act of Queensland
hasCharacteristic includes many Indigenous communities
hasDemographicFeature significant Aboriginal population
significant Torres Strait Islander population
hasElectorateType rural and remote
hasFeature large geographic area
predominantly remote
sparsely populated
hasRepresentation single-member electorate
isPartOf Parliament of Queensland
jurisdiction Queensland
legislativeBody Queensland Legislative Assembly
levelOfGovernment state
locatedIn Cape York Peninsula
Far North Queensland
Queensland
Torres Strait region
linked to: Torres Strait
namedAfter James Cook
regionType far northern Queensland
state Queensland

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