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	Gulf of Carpentaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea).
		In geological terms, the Gulf is young - it was dry land as recently as the last ice age.
		In the Gulf Country, however, there are no mountains to restrict rainfall to the coastal band and the transition from the profuse tropical growth of the seaside areas to the arid scrubs of central Australia is gradual.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf_of_Carpentaria (420 words)

	Thomas McDermott born abt 1831 in Sligo, Ireland
		The Gulf of Carpentaria, 2000 tons, left Glasgow on 10 June 1885 and arrived in Brisbane on 12 August 1885 with Captain Thompson, Surgeon Superintendant Dr. J.
		with cargo and 112 immigrants from the steamer Gulf of Carpentaria.
		The steamer Gulf of Carpentaria is under the command of Captain R. Thomson, and the immigrants were in charge of Dr. J.
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/mcdermot.htm (1372 words)

	Gulf of Carpentaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Gulf of Carpentaria is the large bay shared by the Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia (north central Australia).
		The Gulf is separated from the Coral Sea on the northeast by the 12-m-deep Torres Strait and from the Arafura Sea on the northwest by the Arafura Sill, which lies about 53 m below the sea surface.
		The Gulf is a macrotidal, drowned river valley, and a mature estuary that is relatively shallow and flat-floored.
	omp.gso.uri.edu /doee/science/descript/gulfcarp.htm (283 words)

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		The western border of the sea is the Indian Ocean, and on the east, it is separated from the Gulf of Carpentaria by the Arafura Sill.
		Although a minor rise on the sea floor, the sill separates a clastic (Gulf of Carpentaria) from the carbonate province of the Arafura Sea.
		The 900- by 600-km diameter Gulf of Carpentaria is a shallow, flat-floored epicontinental sea that lies on the Australian plate between northern Australia and the island of New Guinea.
	www.vims.edu /margins/arafura.htm (767 words)

	Gulf of Carpentaria -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Neglected for centuries, the gulf became internationally significant in the late 20th century with the exploitation of its bauxite, manganese, and prawn (shrimp) resources.
		The geologic structure and developmental history of gulfs and bays are as varied as are those of the continents or oceans proper.
		It is bounded by the Timor and Arafura seas on the north, the Gulf of Carpentaria and Queensland on the east, South Australia on the south, and...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9020455?tocId=9020455 (919 words)

	THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA AS A MODERN TECTONIC AND EUSTATIC ANALOGUE FOR THE ILLINOIS BASIN DURING THE PENNSYLVANIAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Gulf of Carpentaria is a shallow, flat-floored epicontinental sea that lies on the Australian Plate between Northern Australia and the Island of New Guinea.
		The Gulf is approximately 900 km by 600 km and is separated from the Coral Sea on the northeastern side by the 12 m deep Torres Strait and from the Arafura Sea on the northwestern side by the Arafura Sill, which lies about 53 m below sea level.
		The Gulf of Carpentaria is a tectonic and eustatic analogue for the Illinois Basin.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2001AM/finalprogram/abstract_26157.htm (495 words)

	Wikinfo \| Gulf of Carpentaria
		The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia, and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea (the waterbody that lies between Australia and New Guinea).
		In geological terms, the Gulf is young: it was dry land as recently as the last ice age.
		The Great Dividing Range, which parallels the entire east and south-east coast, is responsible for the typical pattern of a well-watered coastal strip, a fairly narrow band of mountains, and then a vast, inward-draining plain which receives little rainfall.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Gulf_of_Carpentaria (315 words)

	Queensland History - The Gulf of Carpentaria
		The expedition extended discovery of the eastern gulf coast south to the Staeten (Steaten) River, landing at several points (principally for water) and gave the first descriptions of the northern coast of Australia.
		Matthew Flinders arrived in the Gulf waters on November 3rd, 1802 in the "Investigator".
		It was obvious that a town and port was needed in the Gulf.
	www.burkeshirecouncil.com /gulf_history.htm (1473 words)

	Gulf of Carpentaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The great savannahs and intricate river systems of western Cape York and the Gulf of Carpentaria were described in 1623 by the Dutch explorer Jan Carstensz as being full of hostile tribes – not surprising, since he’d already kidnapped two men and chased the rest off with musket fire.
		Too awkward to develop, the Gulf hung in limbo as settlements sprang up, staggered on for a while, then disappeared; even today few places could be described as thriving communities.
		Most visitors to the Gulf need to be reasonably self-sufficient, as there are few banks and accommodation is largely in campsites (no hostels) or pricey hotels.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/queensland/gulfofcarpentaria.asp (394 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Carpentaria tropical savanna (AA0704)
		Rainfall around the eastern margins of the Gulf is over 900 mm a year, and ranges between 1000 mm to 1200 mm for most of the Northern Territory portion of the ecoregion.
		The Gulf Fall, which dominates the western portion of the ecoregion, is an area of dissected Proterozoic sediments and metamorphics backed by extensively laterized Proterozoic hills with shallow stony soils.
		The Carpentaria lerista (Lerista stylis) is found mainly on the Pellew Islands, the adjacent mainland, and Groote Eylandt to the north (Cogger 1992).
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0704_full.html (2262 words)

	TrackAir Gulf of Carpentaria fishing adventure
		This Spanish Mackerel at around 30 pounds was not the biggest fish in the Gulf of Carpentaria or far north Queensland for that matter, but the Gorilla’s previous best fish before this trip was a 30-cm Port Phillip Bay Flathead; to say he was rapt was an understatement.
		The Gulf of Carpentaria is home to some of the most inhospitable land in Australia yet it provides some of the best fishing this country has to offer.
		The average tidal movement in the Gulf region is 3 to 3.5 meters.
	www.trackairadventures.com /gulf.htm (1894 words)

	Gulf of Carpentaria Region - Northern Territory Official Travel Site
		The Gulf's remote, unspoilt waterways are some of Australia's most unique and exciting fishing destinations.
		On the Northern Territory side of the Gulf, Roper Bar is the natural rock crossing separating the saltwater from the freshwater sections of the mighty Roper River.
		Further south, the small township of Borroloola is set on the McArthur River and is the Gulf's service centre for pastoral, fishing and mining industries.
	www.travelnt.com /regions/katherine/region_gulf.htm (305 words)

	RGSQ Gulf of Carpentaria Studies
		The Gulf of Carpentaria is the largest semi-enclosed body of water in Australia.
		Lying entirely within the tropics, the climate is characterised by constantly high temperatures, 12 hours of daylight almost year round and a heavy, markedly seasonal annual rainfall under the influence of the monsoon.
		One of the four major drainage systems in northern Australia, the Gulf is a shallow, large embayment formed when the brackish Lake Carpentaria was flooded between 10 000 and 6 000 years ago.
	www.rgsq.gil.com.au /gulfC.htm (771 words)

	Late Quaternary hydrological changes in the Gulf of Carpentaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Gulf of Carpentaria is a shallow epicontinental sea between Australia and Papua New Guinea (Fig.
		2) resulted in subaerial exposure of the Gulf of Carpentaria, thereby reducing the regional input of moisture and latent heat to the atmosphere and tropical cyclogenesis.
		During 1982, the extent of Lake Carpentaria was defined by high-resolution seismic profiles and cores.
	www.nature.com /nature/journal/v313/n6005/abs/313785a0.html (356 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Gulf of Carpentaria
		Aqaba, Gulf of : pictures of the Gulf of Aqaba
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	PM - Govt to step up Gulf of Carpentaria patrols
		MARK COLVIN: The Federal Government is planning to beef up its patrols in the Gulf of Carpentaria to try to stop Indonesian fishing boats slipping into Australian waters.
		But what worries Gary Ward, the Chairman of the Gulf of Carpentaria's Commercial Fisherman's Organisation is that the number of Indonesian boats now fishing illegally in Australian waters still seems to be increasing.
		MARK COLVIN: Gary Ward, a commercial fisherman from the Gulf of Carpentaria with Ian Townsend.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2005/s1347903.htm (723 words)

	Search Results for Gulf of Carpentaria - Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Neglected for centuries, the gulf became internationally significant in the late...
		river rising in the Gregory Range of the Eastern Highlands of Queensland, Australia, and flowing for 260 miles (420 km) northwest through level country to the Gulf of Carpentaria at Karumba, a...
		inlet of the Gulf of Carpentaria, in the northeast coast of Northern Territory, Australia.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Gulf+of+Carpentaria (515 words)

	LATE PLEISTOCENE PALAEO-ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY FROM THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA, AUSTRALIA: INTERPRETATION BASED ON ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Gulf of Carpentaria, located in tropical Australia, is an epicontinental sea with maximum water depth of 70 m.
		The foraminifers, ostracods and charophytes are studied, and the environmental reconstruction of the ‘Lake Carpentaria’ is discussed in relation with fluctuations in sea level and monsoon input.
		Core MD-31 located in the west of the basin, has a higher topographic position, changing from saline lake to freshwater lake to saline lake to a time of highly saline events within dry periods.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/inqu/finalprogram/abstract_54758.htm (512 words)

	Gulf of Carpentaria Megabenthos Data 1990
		Megabenthos was sampled using a beam trawl at 105 sites throughout the Gulf of Carpentaria during the Southern Surveyor cruise SS 03/90.
		The primary aim of the cruise was to determine the commercial fin fish recources and the distribution of the demersal fish fauna in relation to: the distribution of the benthos, sediments and depth in these areas.
		Secondary aim was to determine which species of fish feed on penaeid prawns in selected prawn-trawl areas of the GOC; to describe the bycatch and determine the fate of bycatch of commercial fish trawls and differences in the fish communities of areas of high and low prawn trawl effort.
	www.marine.csiro.au /marq/edd_search.browse_citation?txtSession=4682 (281 words)

	Morning glory cloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The spectacular Morning Glory Roll cloud occurs in the Australian region called the Gulf of Carpentaria and off the Mexican coast in the Sea of Cortez.
		The phenomenon has also been observed from Sable Island, a small Canadian island located 180 km southwest of Nova Scotia.
		In contrast to Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria where the morning glory cloud is visible in the morning, the cloud has a predilection to hit the island in the early evening.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morning_glory_cloud (221 words)

	The World Today - New species found in Gulf of Carpentaria fish haul
		TANYA NOLAN: If you love your fishing, North Queensland is paradise, and biologists are particularly excited after returning recently from a fishing trip to the rivers of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		Among their haul of 53 freshwater fish species were four species new to science, including one fish living happily in hot bore water, and another that has surprising potential for fish farming.
		IAN TOWNSEND: Biologists with Queensland's Department of Fisheries have spent several weeks looking at the freshwater catchments of rivers that flow into the Gulf of Carpentaria.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2005/s1326684.htm (726 words)

	cooltech.iafrica.com \| coolscience New coral reef system discovered
		Scientists have discovered new coral reefs stretching 100 kilometres in the remote Gulf of Carpentaria off Australia's rugged north coast.
		They were found by a survey team that went to the Gulf of Carpentaria to follow up on initial exploration work carried out two years ago, when three "patch" reefs, one 10 kilometres across, were found.
		"This discovery makes the Gulf of Carpentaria an important modern coral reef region of Australia, encompassing as many as 50 small coral patch reefs, one to 10 kilometres in diameter, plus an elongated platform coral reef that is around 100 kilometres in length extending westwards from Mornington Island," Harris said.
	cooltech.iafrica.com /science/435478.htm (459 words)

	Carpentaria, Gulf of
		Cape York Peninsula - Cape York Peninsula, 280 mi (451 km) long, N Queensland, Australia, between the Gulf of Carpentaria...
		Carpentaria, Gulf of (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
		Pacific Islander involvement in the pastoral industry of the Gulf of Carpentaria (1).
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0810554.html (255 words)

	Submission: Gulf of Carpentaria Line Fishery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Department of Primary Industries Queensland has prepared this report for Environment Australia for assessment under the guidelines for exemption from export controls of the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999 relating to wildlife.
		Presently, the only export product from the Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Finfish Fishery (GOCIFF) is shark fin, however, there is scope for products from other species (e.g., grey mackerel) to be exported in the future depending on market forces.
		If you are unable to access this document, please contact the Department of the Environment and Heritage to organise a suitable alternative format.
	www.deh.gov.au /coasts/fisheries/qld/line/submission.html (310 words)

	MSN Encarta - Gulf of Carpentaria
		Carpentaria, Gulf of, arm of the Arafura Sea, northern Australia.
		The gulf is 600 km (400 mi) wide and 770 km (480 mi) long.
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	AAP General News (Australia): Qld: Ex-Cyclone Fritz could recharge in Gulf of Carpentaria@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		AAP General News (Australia): Qld: Ex-Cyclone Fritz could recharge in Gulf of Carpentaria@ HighBeam Research
		Qld: Ex-Cyclone Fritz could recharge in Gulf of Carpentaria
		The weather bureau has issued a cyclone warning for the Gulf of Carpentaria as ex-Cyclone
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:90977493&... (220 words)

	Visible Earth: Wave clouds in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bright white wave clouds hover over the Gulf of Carpentaria in Northern Australia.
		These clouds often form in a thin layer of the atmosphere where the temperature is fairly stable.
		The Gulf of Carpentaria is famous for its regular wave clouds, which form frequently in the spring.
	visibleearth.nasa.gov /view_rec.php?vev1id=25910 (164 words)

	Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, by Thomas Mitchell
		A trade in horses required to remount the Indian cavalry had commenced, and the disadvantageous navigation of Torres Straits had been injurious to it: that drawback was to be avoided by any overland route from Sydney to the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		That sea was already connected with England by steam navigation, and to render it accessible to Sydney by land, was an object in itself worthy of an exploratory expedition.
		The map of Australia, when compared with that of the world, suggested reasonable grounds for believing that a considerable river would be found to lead to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/9/9/4/9943/9943-h/9943-h.htm (18194 words)

	AAP General News (Australia): Qld: Fritz back in action in Gulf of Carpentaria@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		AAP General News (Australia): Qld: Fritz back in action in Gulf of Carpentaria@ HighBeam Research
		The weather bureau has issued a cyclone warning for Gulf of Carpentaria coastal and
		It was expected to move further into the gulf today and intensify.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:91032790&... (214 words)

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