Cape York Peninsula

noun

a peninsula in NE Australia, in N Queensland, between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea.

The blacks in this part of the colony are bad enough, but on Cape York Peninsula, they are worse—daring and ferocious cannibals.

Its form in the scrubs of the Cape York Peninsula is long and creeping, forming a net work of vines very formidable to progress.

It is the first thing of the kind ever seen on Cape York Peninsula.

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