Cape York

British  

noun

1. the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)

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Cape York

"I raced down… but there was no sign of him, just his thongs on the bank and nothing else," his friend John Peiti told the Cape York Weekly.

From BBC ● May 2, 2023

Mr Darmody was an experienced fisherman and a well-known member of the community in Cape York.

From BBC ● May 2, 2023

His father is a Torres Strait Islander, from the tropical archipelago between the country's northwestern Cape York and Papua New Guinea.

From Reuters ● Jul. 11, 2016

This mosquito is only found in the Torres Strait, to the north of Australia, between Australia’s Cape York Peninsula and Papua New Guinea.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2016

The boomerang, that quintessential Australian weapon, was abandoned in the Cape York Peninsula of northeastern Australia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond