 It is also known as Coen Telegraph Station and Coen Carrier Repeater Station.It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 27 May 1997.Coen Carrier Station, a prefabricated steel and corrugated iron building, was erected in 1942 as part of an urgent upgrading of the Cape York Peninsula overland telegraph line (established in the 1880s), undertaken in response to Japanese aggression in the Pacific and South East Asia.