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    The Gulf of Carpentaria (/kɑːrpənˈtɛəriə/) is a sea off the northern coast of Australia. It is enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded...
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    Morning Glory cloud (category Gulf of Carpentaria)
    occurs as an amplitude-ordered series of waves forming bands of roll clouds. The southern part of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Northern Australia is the only...
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    objective was the crossing of Australia from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres (approximately...
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    Shire of Carpentaria is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia on the Gulf of Carpentaria, for which it is named. The Shire of Carpentaria...
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    displacement of Aboriginal communities and the arrival of Torres Strait Islanders on the mainland. The west coast borders the Gulf of Carpentaria and the east...
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    – 320,000 km2 Java Sea – 320,000 km2 Gulf of Thailand – 320,000 km2 Celtic Sea – 300,000 km2 Gulf of Carpentaria – 300,000 km2 Celebes Sea – 280,000 km2...
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  • the interconnected stories of several inhabitants of the fictional town of Desperance, situated on the Gulf of Carpentaria in northwest Queensland. There...
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    Gulf of Aqaba (Arabic: خَلِيج الْعَقَبَة, romanized: Khalīj al-ʿAqaba) or Gulf of Eilat (Hebrew: מפרץ אילת, romanized: Mifrátz Eilát) is a large gulf...
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  • he made the first nonstop kayak crossing of the Bass Strait. In 2004, he kayaked across the Gulf of Carpentaria. In 2006, he led an expedition in the Australian...
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    The Gulf Country or North West Queensland is the region of woodland and savanna grassland surrounding the Gulf of Carpentaria in north western Queensland...
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    Picture of the Day Archive". NASA. Retrieved June 1, 2014.. Clarke, R. H.; Smith, R. K.; Reid, D. G. (1981). "The Morning Glory of the Gulf of Carpentaria: An...
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    661 mm (26.0 in) of rainfall. The BoM noted the possibility of a tropical low forming within the monsoon trough over the Gulf of Carpentaria on 9 January...
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  • the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, and locality in the Shire of Mornington South Wellesley Islands, an island group in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland...
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  • Gulf of Carpentaria Marine Park (formerly known as the Gulf of Carpentaria Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is an Australian marine park in the Gulf of Carpentaria...
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  • Barranyi (North Island) National Park (category National parks of the Northern Territory)
    National Park is in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory of Australia, 737 km southeast of Darwin. Protected areas of the Northern Territory...
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    Australian mainland from Papua New Guinea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north-west. With an area of 1,723,030 square kilometres (665,270 sq mi), Queensland...
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    John King (explorer) (category British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857)
    He was the sole survivor of the four men from the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition who reached the Gulf of Carpentaria. The expedition was the first...
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    The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent...
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    Bohai Sea (redirect from Gulf of Chihli)
    pinyin: Bó Hǎi; lit. 'Bo Sea') is a gulf/inland sea approximately 77,000 km2 (30,000 sq mi) in area on the east coast of Mainland China. It is the northwestern...
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  • the north coast of Western Australia Gulf of Carpentaria, in Northern Australia Gulf of Cazones, in southern Cuba Gulf of Corinth, of the Ionian Sea separating...
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    The Gulf of California (Spanish: Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion...
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    Karumba, Queensland (category Gulf of Carpentaria)
    Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, the locality of Karumba had a population of 531 people. Karumba is in the Gulf Country...
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    northeastern Northern Territory, south of the Gulf of Carpentaria. It includes much of Queensland's Gulf Country, and a portion of the Barkly Tableland in the Northern...
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    coast of New Guinea, missed Torres Strait, and explored perhaps 350 kilometres (220 mi) of western side of Cape York, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, believing...
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    Borroloola (category Articles incorporating text from the State Library of Queensland)
    the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located on the McArthur River, about 50 km (31 mi) upstream from the Gulf of Carpentaria. Borroloola lies on the...
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    Arafura Sea (category Bodies of water of Australia)
    Indonesian part of the Island of New Guinea. The Arafura Sea is bordered by the Gulf of Carpentaria and the continent of Australia to the south, the Timor...
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    Australasian Mediterranean Sea (category Articles using infobox body of water without alt)
    000 km2 Timor Sea - 610,000 km2 Java Sea - 320,000 km2 Gulf of Thailand - 320,000 km2 Gulf of Carpentaria - 300,000 km2 Celebes Sea - 280,000 km2 Sulu Sea -...
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  • north-western Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria, adjacent to Queensland and the Northern Territory, Australia Shire of Carpentaria, a local government area...
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  • cyclone on record to impact Australia, caused damage throughout the Gulf of Carpentaria. In the Western North Pacific: Typhoon Peter (1997) (T9708, 09W,...
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    Norman River (category Rivers of Queensland)
    Carpentaria. It is joined by three major tributaries, the Carron, Clara and Yappar Rivers. The river flows through Normanton before entering the Gulf...
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