About 325km (200 miles) using Mulligan Hwy/State Route 81.
The road distance between Cairns and Gladstone is about 1174 km. The flight distance is around 959 km.
I would say: The Coast Road and Cairns to Cooktown!
The road distance between Cairns and Townsville is about 350km, and takes four and a half hours to travel.
The distance from Philadelphia to Cairns is 2388 miles (3843 km).
The air distance from Brisbane, Australia, to Cairns, Australia, is 863 miles. That equals 1,389 kilometers or 750 nautical miles.
518 miles
The distance from Maryborough to Cairns by road is 1450 km.
Driving to Cairns QLD from Sydney NSW2,629 km - about 1 day 10 hours
1,596.5 miles / 2769km by road.
Geobytes.com says that the distance between Glasgow Scotland and Cairns Australia is 9,330 miles or 15,014km
The road distance between Cooktown and Bamaga in North Queensland is around 818 km, taking the Peninsula Developmental Road. The road is rough and really only suitable for 4WD vehicles.
The Cairns Birdwing Butterfly (Ornithoptea euphorion) is Australia's largest butterfly. Females can have a wingspan of 14-16 cm, with some specimens being reported as having a wingspan of 20cm. The Cairns Birdwing Butterfly is found only in rainforests of north Queensland, between Mackay and Cooktown.