Eylandt

Fish, c1950 (Groote Eylandt) natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 28.0 x 49.0 cm

March 2009 2009

Consmin and OM Holdings are the largest miners of manganese in Australia after BHP Billiton Ltd., whose mine on the remote Groote Eylandt in the north of Queensland state is one of the world's largest.

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_Eylandt_: the first syllable of which, they inform us, is _ea_, Low Germ. _aue_, water, _i. e.

Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

Eylandt was in sight; but an island of considerable extent and elevation, not noticed in the old chart, lay six or seven miles to the E.N. E.; and

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794

Eylandt, where the shore trends southward and seemed to form a bay, into which I proposed to conduct the ship.

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794

The Dutch chart contains an island of great extent, lying off this part of the North Coast; it has no name in Thevenot, but in some authors bears that of Wessel's or Wezel's Eylandt, probably from the vessel which discovered Arnhem's Land in 1636; and from the south end of Cotton's

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794

The variations of the surveying compass, from amplitudes taken near different parts of Groote Eylandt during the circumnavigation, were these: --

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794

Eylandt_ of the old charts, six or eight leagues on the starbord hand.

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794

Eylandt; which name I retain with a slight modification, calling them

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794

Eylandt; and at nine o'clock it was set at S. 27½° to 47° W., two leagues.

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794