NOUN
- the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland
How To Use Cape York In A Sentence
- Officers of the Northern Australian Quarantine Strategy sailed on Wewak in November to check coastal areas and inshore islands of remote Cape York and the Gulf of Carpentaria.
- The festival takes place biennially at the site that is sacred to the aboriginal community in Cape York peninsula, which is surrounded by some of the oldest rock art in the world. Asia in Pictures
- Over 100 Gondwanan species are found on the Cape York Peninsula, including members of the primitive angiosperm families Annonaceae and Lauraceae, as well as orchids of the Arthochilus, Corybas, and Calochilus genera, and members of the Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae families. Cape York tropical savanna
- Restricted range and globally threatened birds present in Cape York Peninsula include the buff-breasted buttonquail (Turnix olivii EN), golden-shouldered parrot (Psephotus chrysopterygius EN), lovely fairywren (Malurus amabilis), white-streaked honeyeater (Trichodere cockerelli), and yellow-spotted honeyeater (Meliphaga notata). Cape York tropical savanna
- Indeed, he tells how he slept with a loaded rifle after being threatened by disgruntled whites for helping to establish a Cape York outstation in the early 70s. Untruth by omission
- QUEENSLAND, April 6, 2009: Noel Pearson is accusing the Queensland government of deceiving Indigenous people after Premier Anna Bligh banned development around three Cape York rivers. Undefined
- While there has been no systematic Peninsula-wide survey of invertebrates, nearly 60 percent of all Australian butterflies (223 species) occur on Cape York Peninsula, including the spectacular Cape York birdwing (Troides priamus pronomus). Cape York tropical savanna
- The fine-leafed beefwood or forest wax tree, Grevillea coriacea (family Proteaceae), is a characteristic tree of the open woodland and grassland of central Cape York Peninsula.
- But it's his journey tomorrow to Indigenous communities on Cape York that may prove the biggest eye-opener.
- Captain Phillip had been appointed Governor of all New South Wales, that is from Cape York to Van Diemen's Land, still supposed to be part of the mainland. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
