Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Cape York.
Examples
-
As we approached Cape York, which is farther from the Pole in actual distance than New York is from Tampa, Florida, it was with a peculiar feeling of satisfaction that I saw the foremost of our Eskimo friends putting out to meet us in their tiny kayaks, or skin canoes.
The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888
-
About 7,000 years ago a single Erythroxylum shrub in the Northern Territory became isolated from its cousins further east on Cape York in Queensland when melting glaciers created the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Self-Cloning Botanic Wonder Amazes Australian Scientists 2010
-
Jamie was in Sydney to welcome me when I got home, which was wonderful, and as I send this book to the printer he is about to round Cape York.
True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010
-
About 7,000 years ago a single Erythroxylum shrub in the Northern Territory became isolated from its cousins further east on Cape York in Queensland when melting glaciers created the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Self-Cloning Botanic Wonder Amazes Australian Scientists 2010
-
If Cape York traditional owners blockade the cape, as Michael Ross, Olkolo leader and chairman of the Cape York Land Council, has suggested, the trust and partnership painstakingly built up over the past 20 years will vanish.
Archive 2009-05-01 Bill Kerr 2009
-
If Cape York traditional owners blockade the cape, as Michael Ross, Olkolo leader and chairman of the Cape York Land Council, has suggested, the trust and partnership painstakingly built up over the past 20 years will vanish.
how do you sleep, Peter Garrett, when your bed is burning? Bill Kerr 2009
-
This, of course, is now over 400 years old, with the first recorded touching by Dutch explorers on the North East Cape, on Cape York, in 1606.
-
ABORIGINAL leader Noel Pearson will launch legal action against the Queensland Government over its declaration of three waterways in Cape York as "wild rivers", claiming the protected status would ruin the future of a generation
how do you sleep, Peter Garrett, when your bed is burning? Bill Kerr 2009
-
Follow me to Pormpuraaw, a small Aboriginal community on the western edge of Cape York, in northern Australia.
HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? - By Lera Boroditsky William Harryman 2009
-
Mr Pearson says any number of environmentalists are "running around in koala suits" trying to save Cape York about the changing relationship between aboriginal and environmental groups over time, not only in Cape York
Archive 2009-05-01 Bill Kerr 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.