Download coordinates as: Laura is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia.

[1] It is the centre for the largest collection of prehistoric rock art in the world, including Quinkan Country which is on the Australian National Heritage List.

[citation needed] Guugu Yimithirr (also known as Koko Yindjir, Gugu Yimidhirr, Guguyimidjir) is an Australian Aboriginal language of Hope Vale and the Cooktown area.

This was a very violent period, as local aboriginal clans waged a war of resistance against encroachment on and usurpation of their lands.

[11] A Native Mounted Police camp was established near the Lower Laura crossing to protect travellers.

[13][15][16] The railway was extended towards the Palmer gold fields with an impressive bridge over the Laura River opened, to great fanfare, in 1891.

[citation needed] It was during the 1960s that Quinkan rock art galleries were reported by Percy Trezise, an airline pilot who surveyed the area from the air for likely sites and later walked in to rediscover them.

Some of the world's most extensive and ancient rock painting galleries surround the town of Laura, some of which are available for public viewing.

Laura has an Interpretive Centre from which information on the rock art and local Aboriginal culture is available and tours can be arranged.

[25] A biennial, three day event for communities gathering to celebrate traditional Indigenous music, dance, crafts and stories.

In 2009 Tom George[26] an elder of the Kuku Thaypan clan, presented his history and role in establishing the Laura Dance Festival, the traditional weaving[27] exchange occurred at the Laura festival by the Erub Island and Hopevale communities and photographs.