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)

Being still under the impression that Cape York was higher up, I steered west, and soon found myself in a very unpleasant region.

The ship was fully repaired; and, after a delay of two months, they proceeded northward along the coast to Cape York.

Cape York was gained in seventy hours, an extremely rapid passage.

The crew encamped during the winter, and in the summer they sailed down to Cape York, where they met the ice.

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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