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CARPENTARIA, GULF OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 384 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARPENTARIA, GULF OF , an extensive See also:arm of the See also:sea deeply indenting the See also:north See also:coast of See also:Australia, between 10° 40' and 17° 4o' S., and 135° 30' and 142 ° E. Its length is 48o m. and its extreme breadth (E. to W.) 420 M. It is bounded E. by Cape See also:York See also:Peninsula, and W. by the See also:Northern Territory of See also:South Australia. Near its See also:southern extremity is situated a See also:group of islands called See also:Wellesley; and towards the western See also:side are the See also:Sir See also:Edward Pellew Islands, the Groote Eylandt and others. A large number of See also:rivers find their way to the gulf, and some are of considerable See also:size. On the eastern side there is the See also:Mitchell See also:river; at the south-See also:east corner the See also:Gilbert, the See also:Norman, the See also:Flinders, the Leichhardt and the See also:Gregory; and on the See also:west the Roper river. See also:Jan Carstensz, who undertook a voyage of See also:discovery in this See also:part of the globe in 1623, gave the name of Carpentier to a small river near Cape Duyfhen in See also:honour of Pieter Carpentier, at that See also:time See also:governor-See also:general of the Dutch East Indies; and after the second voyage of See also:Abel See also:Tasman in 1644, the gulf, which he had successfully explored, began to appear on the charts under its See also:present designation.

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