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CARPENTARIA, GULF OF

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 384 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAR-CAU
CARPENTARIA, GULF OF , an extensive arm of the sea deeply indenting the north coast of 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
York
  Peninsula, and W. by the Northern Territory of South Australia. Near its southern extremity is situated a group of islands called Wellesley; and towards the western side are the Sir Edward Pellew Islands, the Groote Eylandt and others. A large number of rivers find their way to the gulf, and some are of considerable size. On the eastern side there is the
Mitchell
  river; at the south-
east
  corner the Gilbert, the Norman, the Flinders, the Leichhardt and the Gregory; and on the west the Roper river. Jan Carstensz, who undertook a voyage of discovery in this part of the globe in 1623, gave the name of Carpentier to a small river near Cape Duyfhen in honour of Pieter Carpentier, at that time
governor
 -general of the Dutch
East
  Indies; and after the second voyage of Abel
Tasman
  in 1644, the gulf, which he had successfully explored, began to appear on the charts under its present designation.


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