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Cape York
noun
- the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
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Being still under the impression that Cape York was higher up, I steered west, and soon found myself in a very unpleasant region.
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The ship was fully repaired; and, after a delay of two months, they proceeded northward along the coast to Cape York.
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Cape York was gained in seventy hours, an extremely rapid passage.
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The crew encamped during the winter, and in the summer they sailed down to Cape York, where they met the ice.
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The blacks in this part of the colony are bad enough, but on Cape York Peninsula, they are worse—daring and ferocious cannibals.
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