The Morning Glory cloud is a rare meteorological phenomenon consisting of a low-level atmospheric solitary wave and associated cloud, occasionally observed in different locations around the world. The wave often occurs as an amplitude-ordered series of waves forming bands of roll clouds.
Mingginda or Minkin is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, perhaps a language isolate, of northern Australia. It was spoken by the Mingin people in the area around Burketown, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, in an area that contains the headwaters of the Leichhardt River.
The Shire of Carpentaria is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia on the Gulf of Carpentaria, for which it is named.
The Shire of Burke is a local government area in North West Queensland, Australia. The shire lies on the south coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria and abuts the border with the Northern Territory. It covers an area of 40,126.8 square kilometres (15,493.0 sq mi), and has existed as a local government entity since 1885. The major town and administrative centre of the shire is Burketown. The shire and town and the Burke River passing through all are named in honour of ill-fated explorer Robert O'Hara Burke.
The Gulf Country is the region of woodland and savanna grassland surrounding the Gulf of Carpentaria in north western Queensland and eastern Northern Territory on the north coast of Australia. The region is also called the Gulf Savannah. It contains large reserves of zinc, lead and silver. The Gulf Country is crossed by the Savannah Way highway.
The Settlement Creek is a creek located in the Northern Territory and the state of Queensland, Australia.
The Lardil are an indigenous Australian people and the traditional owners of Mornington Island in the Wellesley Islands chain in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland.
The Kaiadilt are an indigenous Australian people of the South Wellesley group in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. They are native to Bentinck Island, but also made nomadic fishing and hunting forays to both Sweers and Allen Islands. Their descendants now live on Mornington Island, though one group has returned to Bentinck Island.
The Nguburinji, also written Ngoborindi, were an Indigenous Australian people who traditionally lived in northwest Queensland south of the Ganggalida, north of the Injilarija, west of the Mingin and east of the Waanyi.
The Injilarija people were an Indigenous Australian people south of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland who lived east of the Waanyi, south of the Nguburinji and west of the Mingginda that are considered extinct.
The Yanyuwa people are an Indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory who live in the coastal region inclusive of and opposite to the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.
The Mingin, also known as the Mingginda, were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland, who lived in the Gulf Country east of Moonlight Creek and the Ganggalida people in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. They are now thought to be extinct.
Burketown is an isolated town and locality in the far north-western Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia. It is located 898km west of Cairns on the Albert River and Savannah Way in the area known as the Gulf Savannah. The town is the administrative centre of the vast Burke Shire Council. In the 2011 census, Burketown had a population of 201 people.
The Wadere were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Carpentaria is a coastal locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Carpentaria had a population of 14 people.
