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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A peninsula of northeast Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea.
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- noun a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea
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DAMAGING winds with gusts to 90 km/hr are expected to develop on the islands during Wednesday morning, then extend onto the coast during the day, and further inland across southern Cape York Peninsula and north of Charters Towers overnight.
Katrina-Sized Australia Cyclone To Make Landfall Thursday The Huffington Post 2011
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Field officers are limited in number with only seven being available on any given day to supervise the area between Cooktown and the top of Cape York Peninsula, a coastline in excess of 800 km.
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Over 100 Gondwanan species are found on the Cape York Peninsula, including members of the primitive angiosperm families Annonaceae and Lauraceae, as well as orchids of the Arthochilus, Corybas, and Calochilus genera, and members of the Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae families.
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Three species of endangered marine turtle are found on Cape York Peninsula.
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On the western half of Cape York Peninsula, there are large amounts of red and yellow earths, as well as laterite soils with significant bauxite deposits.
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Pastoralism remains the biggest land use, with roughly 60 percent of Cape York Peninsula held as cattle properties.
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Two subspecies of widespread Australian birds have been identified as threatened, the Cape York Peninsula form of rufous owl (Ninox rufa meesi) and the white-bellied form of crimson finch (Neochmia phaeton evangelinae).
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The vascular flora of Cape York Peninsula comprises 3,338 species, which show a variety of influences.
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The Gulf of Carpentaria forms a low, arid division between the wetter "Top End" of Arnhem Land and the Cape York Peninsula.
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In 1990, Queensland and Commonwealth Governments jointly funded a major study on the land use and management of this region, the Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy (CYPLUS).
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