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Carpentaria

noun
1.
A wide shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea in northern Australia.  Synonym: Gulf of Carpentaria.





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"Carpentaria" Quotes from Famous Books



... as well as the anomalous number of the classes, seem to indicate that they are of a somewhat different nature to the real intermarrying classes found elsewhere[47]. It is of course well known that the initiation ceremonies and totemic system of the northern tribes on both sides of the Gulf of Carpentaria differ somewhat widely ...
— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas
... we close our investigations. To use a nautical expression, it is, compared with Europe and Asia, almost an iron-bound coast. It possesses only two large indentations,—the Gulf of Carpentaria on the north, and Spencer's Gulf on the south. Shark's Bay, on the west, and Hervey's Bay, on the east, are ...
— The World of Waters - A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea • Mrs. David Osborne


Words linked to "Carpentaria" :   gulf, Commonwealth of Australia, Australia


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