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Carpentaria

American  
[kahr-puhn-tair-ee-a] / ˌkɑr pənˈtɛər i æ /

noun

  1. Gulf of, a gulf on the coast of N Australia. About 480 miles (775 km) long; about 300 miles (485 km) wide.


Carpentaria British  
/ ˌkɑːpənˈtɛərɪə /

noun

  1. a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula

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The species grows only in rugged terrain near the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia.

From Science Daily May 18, 2026

The cyclone crossed on to Australia’s mainland late Monday near the remote town of Borroloola on the southwestern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, where it had been lashing island communities for several days.

From Seattle Times Mar. 18, 2024

Set in Wright’s ancestral homeland — she is a member of the Waanyi nation of the Gulf of Carpentaria, on Australia’s northern coast — “Praiseworthy” is her longest and most complex novel so far.

From New York Times Feb. 4, 2024

The mystery emerged in 2015, when nearly 10 percent of the seemingly healthy mangrove forest along northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria suddenly died.

From Scientific American Dec. 1, 2022

On February 11, 1861, he reached a point only a few miles from the shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and thus accomplished his 496mission of entirely crossing the Australian Continent from south to north.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

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