1 From their colony at Java they sent out a small vessel, the Duyfhen, or Dove, which sailed into the Gulf of Carpentaria, and passed half-way down along its eastern side.

2 This is Limmen National Park, near the Northern Territory border with the Gulf of Carpentaria.

3 Cape York Peninsula: a peninsula of northeast australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea.

4 The storm hovered between northern Australia and southern New Guinea, covering the Gulf of Carpentaria and much of the Arafura Sea.

5 CAPE York Peninsula :a peninsula of northeast australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea.

6 An intermittent river of northeast Australia flowing about 837 km (520 mi) northwest to the Gulf of Carpentaria.