How To Use Carpentaria In A Sentence
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The third division seems to have followed along the bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria to its most south – easterly bight, and then to have turned off by the first practicable line in
An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
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This time success crowned his efforts; a passage was found northwards through the opposing scrub, and leaving the Gulf of Carpentaria far to the right, the Indian Ocean itself was reached.
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
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Seven years later, in 1855, Mr. Gregory landed on the north-west coast for the purpose of exploring the Victoria River, and after penetrating as far south as latitude 20 degrees 16 minutes, longitude 131 degrees 44 minutes, he was compelled to proceed to the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and thence to Sydney along the route taken by Dr. Leichardt in 1844.
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
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In 1996 Archibald and Matthiessen traveled to the Gulf of Carpentaria to observe Australia's only two crane species, the sarus and the brolga, or "native companion," so called because of its close association with Australia's Aboriginal people.
Birds Out of Time
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Gentle upwarping has caused the western Queensland Mitchell Grass Downs to form the divide between northern drainage to the Gulf of Carpentaria via the Flinders River and southwestern drainage via the Diamantina River and Channel Country into Lake Eyre.
Mitchell grass downs
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New Guinea, Captain Jan Carstens, of the ARNHEM, and eight of his crew were murdered by the natives, but the vessels proceeded, and touched upon the north coast of New Holland, west of the Gulf of Carpentaria, still known as Arnhem's Land.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
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Australia's Bureau of Meteorology warned that heavy rains and thunderstorms would continue over two stretches of land inland from the sugar mill town of Bundaberg and southeast of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland state, leading to localized flash floods and worsening river flooding.
Floods Hit Another Australian Town
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The stream on which Carpentaria Downs station is situated was supposed to be the "Lynd" of Leichhardt and was so called and known; but as this was found to be an error, and that it was a tributary of the Gilbert, it will be distinguished by the name it subsequently received, the Einasleih.
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
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The site is situated at Gulkala, set amongst stringybark forest with views to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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In addition, there has been marked reduction in the range of the Carpentarian antechinus (Pseudantechinus mimulus VU) and brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula).
Mitchell grass downs
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Macassans crossed the Arafura Sea each December in a fleet of small wooden vessels, called praus, and set up camp on beaches, particularly on islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria and in Arnhem Land.
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Georgetown (pop 300) and Normanton (pop 2500) both small isolated towns at the bottom of Gulf of Carpentaria.
Phil Jones and Australian Billabongs « Climate Audit
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About April, 1863, Edward Palmer (years afterwards M.L.A. for Carpentaria), who was in charge of his uncle's station "Eureka," four miles from "Stanton Harcourt," started with the sheep depasturing there for the Gulf country.
Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869
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A total of 477mm fell on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday, the island's highest 24-hour total since records began in 1914.
Weatherwatch: Storms ravage north America and Australia
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From here Flinders sailed north into a gulf, which he named Spencer Gulf, and hoped that it would lead him well inland or even to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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In 1996 Archibald and Matthiessen traveled to the Gulf of Carpentaria to observe Australia's only two crane species, the sarus and the brolga, or "native companion," so called because of its close association with Australia's Aboriginal people.
Birds Out of Time
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The semi-arid lowlands around the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria form a notable disjunction in the distribution of many vertebrate groups in northern Australia.
Carpentaria tropical savanna
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The Tertiary fossil fields of Riversleigh are apparently confined to the watershed of the spring fed Gregory River within the Karumba Basin in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia
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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.
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The Gulf of Carpentaria is a major feature of the northern Australiancoastline.
Carpentaria tropical savanna
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After striking Queensland a few days ago, Monica is now over the Gulf of Carpentaria and is much worse than before!
Firedoglake » Republican Defeatism
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Other species with notable disjunct distributions on the Pellew Islands include the canefield rat (Rattus sordidus) (the only known occurrence in the Northern Territory), the vulnerable Carpentarian pseudantechinus (Pseudantechinus mimulus), brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa) and northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus).
Carpentaria tropical savanna
