Focus For European Missionaries
In 1885, while delayed on his journey to Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (German New Guinea), the Lutheran missionary Johann Flierl founded Elim Aboriginal Mission, Queensland at Cooktown, which was later known as Hope Vale.
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