Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a major feature of the northern Australiancoastline.

Carpentaria tropical savanna 2008

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 2011

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 David Fickling 2011

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 2009

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 2008

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 2007

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 2007

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 2007

After striking Queensland a few days ago, Monica is now over the Gulf of Carpentaria and is much worse than before!

Firedoglake » Republican Defeatism 2006

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 2004