D'Entrecasteaux

The largest portion of the ecoregion and the nearest to the New Guinea mainland is made up of three principal islands of the D'Entrecasteaux group: Goodenough, Fergusson, and Normanby.

Trobriand Islands rain forests 2008

Most of the ecoregion, with the notable exception of Woodlark Island, is part of the D'Entrecasteaux and Trobriand Islands Endemic Bird Area, EBA.

Trobriand Islands rain forests 2008

The ecoregion lies just off the southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the southwest Pacific and includes Woodlark Island and two island groups: the D'Entrecasteaux and the Trobriand.

Trobriand Islands rain forests 2008

One of these birds, the curl-crested manucode, is found on all three major islands of the D'Entrecasteaux group and in the Trobriand Islands.

Trobriand Islands rain forests 2008

The protected area system in this ecoregion includes a number of large, well-known national parks, including Shannon National Park (535 square-kilometers (km2)), D'Entrecasteaux National Park, Mt. Frankland National Park (308 km2), and Walpole-Nornalup National Park (200 km2).

Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands 2007

Italian boot with its toe bent upwards — projects into the bay, and, separated from this projection by a narrow channel, dotted with rocks, the long length of Bruny Island makes, between its western side and the cliffs of Mount Royal, the dangerous passage known as D'Entrecasteaux Channel.

For the term of his natural life 2004

Launceston is warm, sheltered, and moist; and Hobart Town, protected by Bruny Island and its archipelago of D'Entrecasteaux

For the term of his natural life 2004

It would seem as though nature, jealous of the beauties of her silver Derwent, had made the approach to it as dangerous as possible; but once through the archipelago of D'Entrecasteaux

For the term of his natural life 2004

He was weatherbound, as all the fishing boats were in Recherche or Southport at the entrance to the D'Entrecasteaux Channel; the report from the Maatsuyker lighthouse on the south coast showed the weather to be quite impossible for small craft.

The Rainbow and the Rose Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1958

D'Entrecasteaux Channel; which is by the colonists at the Derwent improperly called The Storm Bay Passage.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King