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Pig Island (Queensland)
Pig Island is a small island in far north Queensland, Australia 19 km North East of Cape Grenville in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia and is part of the Cockburn Islands Group. It is around 160 hectares or 1.6 square km in size. It is to the north of Bootie Island Bootie Island is a small island in the Shire of Cook in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Cockburn Islands Group. Geography Bootie Island is northeast of Cape Grenville in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. It is around ..., Manley Islet and Buchen Rock within the Cockburn Reef adjacent to Pollard Channel and next to the Sir Charles Hardy Islands. References {{reflist Islands on the Great Barrier Reef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Australia
The unofficial geographic term Northern Australia includes those parts of Queensland and Western Australia north of latitude 26° and all of the Northern Territory. Those local government areas of Western Australia and Queensland that lie partially in the north are included. Although it comprises 45% of the total area of Australia, Northern Australia has only 5% of the Australian population (1.3 million in 2019). However, it includes several sources of Australian exports, being coal from the Great Dividing Range in Queensland/New South Wales and the natural gas and iron ore of the Pilbara region in WA. It also includes major natural tourist attractions, such as Uluru (Ayers Rock), the Great Barrier Reef and the Kakadu National Park. Geography and climate Almost all of Northern Australia is a huge ancient craton that has not experienced geological upheaval since the end of the Precambrian. The only exception to this generalisation is the Wet Tropics of northern Queensla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland
) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Queensland , established_title2 = Separation from New South Wales , established_date2 = 6 June 1859 , established_title3 = Federation , established_date3 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Queen Victoria , demonym = , capital = Brisbane , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center_type = Administration , admin_center = 77 local government areas , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Jeannette Young , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Annastacia Palaszczuk ( ALP) , legislature = Parliament of Queensland , judiciary = Supreme Court of Queensland , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Grenville
Cape Grenville (), is a small, east-facing promontory along the Queensland, Australia coast of Cape York Peninsula. It lies between Shelburne Bay to the north and Temple Bay to the south. The nearest significant settlement is Weipa, along the western coast of Cape York. The northern part of this cape forms the southern face of Margaret Bay, to the west of Shelburne Bay. Several small islands (known as the Home Islands) lie off the eastern coast, including Orton Island, Gore Island and Hicks Island. Along the southern side of the cape is Indian Bay. About to the east and northeast of Cape Grenville is the far northern management area of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Persistent winds have blown sand on-shore and inland for up to at the cape. These parabolic dunes form Queensland's most extensive mainland transgressive dune system, slightly larger than those found at Cape Flattery. The Wuthathi people are the traditional owners of the Cape Grenville region. They pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef from damaging activities. It is a vast multiple-use Marine Park which supports a wide range of uses, including commercial marine tourism, fishing, ports and shipping, recreation, scientific research and Indigenous traditional use. Fishing and the removal of artefacts or wildlife (fish, coral, seashells, etc.) is strictly regulated, and commercial shipping traffic must stick to certain specific defined shipping routes that avoid the most sensitive areas of the park. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest and best known coral reef ecosystem in the world. Its reefs, almost 3000 in total, represent about 10 per cent of all the coral reef areas in the world. It supports an amazing variety of biodiversity, providing a home to thousands of coral and other invertebrate species, bony fish, sharks, rays, marine mammals, marine turtles, sea snakes, as well as algae and other marine plants. Managing auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bootie Island (Queensland)
Bootie Island is a small island in the Shire of Cook in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Cockburn Islands Group. Geography Bootie Island is northeast of Cape Grenville in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. It is around 2 hectares or 0.02 square km in size. The island is north of Manley Islet and Buchen Rock within the Cockburn Reef, adjacent to Pollard Channel and the Sir Charles Hardy Islands. History The island is believed to be named after John Bootie, a midshipman on the HMS Endeavour, who died at sea 4 February 1771 on the first voyage of exploration by James Cook to the eastern coast of Australia. The island has been the site of a number of shipwrecks: * Amelia Breillart. ''Brig, 162 tons''. Struck the north edge or Cockburn Reef, Queensland, 15 August 1861 but broke free, continued her voyage but next day leaked so badly she was abandoned. * Florinda / Flounda. ''Schooner, 105 tons. Built Melbourne 1873''. Forced on to a reef at the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cockburn Reef
Cockburn may refer to: People * Cockburn (surname), a surname of Scottish origin Places Australia * City of Cockburn, Local Government Area of Western Australia, named after Admiral Sir George Cockburn * Electoral district of Cockburn, seat in the Western Australian parliament *Cockburn, South Australia, a locality on the NSW-SA state border *Cockburn River, tributary of the Namoi River, NSW * Cockburn Central, Western Australia, in the southern suburbs of Perth Canada * Cockburn Island (Ontario), a island in Lake Huron * Cape Cockburn (Nunavut), a cape at the southern end of Bathurst Island in Nunavut *Cockburn River (Nunavut), a river in north-central Baffin Island in Nunavut Caribbean * Cockburn Gardens, a district in the eastern part of Kingston, Jamaica *Cockburn Harbour, a settlement in the Turks and Caicos Islands *Cockburn Town, the capital city of the Turks and Caicos Islands * Cockburn Town, Bahamas on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, named after Sir Francis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pollard Channel
Pollard may refer to: Places in the United States * Pollard, Alabama, a town * Pollard, Arkansas, a city * Pollard, Kansas, an unincorporated community People * Pollard (surname), a list of people with the surname * Pollard Hopewell (between 1786 and 1789 – 1813), midshipman in the United States Navy * Charles Pollard Olivier (1884–1975), American astronomer * James Pollard Espy (1785–1860), American meteorologist * Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (born c. 1948), Australian indigenous (Warlpiri people) artist * Thomas Pollard Sampson (1875–1961), Australian architect Flora and fauna *Pollard, an animal or a tree which has been polled (had its antlers or horns, or branches removed): **Pollard, a deer which has cast its antlers **Pollard or polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally-horned species **Pollard, a tree affected by pollarding, a method for shaping trees, cropping the branches above head-height * Pollard, the European chub (''Squalius cephalus''), a freshwater f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Hardy Islands, Queensland
Sir Charles Hardy Islands is in the reef of the same name adjacent to Pollard Channel & Blackwood Channel about 40 km east of Cape Grenville off Cape York Peninsula. Shipwrecks Shipwrecks in this area include: ''Charles Eaton'' * '' Charles Eaton''. ''Barque, 313 tons. Reg. London. Captain Frederick G. Moore''. On board was Captain Thomas D'Oyly of the Bengal Artillery and his family. On its voyage from Sydney to India, it struck the Great Detached Reef, approximately 40 miles east of the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, on the outer Barrier Reef on 15 August 1834. Four of the crew succeeded in launching the only undamaged boat and were subsequently joined by two other sailors who swam across the reef. They set out for Timor but came ashore at what was then called Timor Laut, north east of Timor. Today the island is called Yamdena and it is part of the Tenimbar group of islands. Those abandoned at the wreck made two rafts, which separately set out for the mainland. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
