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    Groote Eylandt (Anindilyakwa: Ayangkidarrba; meaning "island" /ˈɡruːtˌaɪlənd/) is the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria and the fourth largest...
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  • Groote Eylandt Airport (IATA: GTE, ICAO: YGTE) is an airport serving Groote Eylandt, an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in Northern Territory, Australia...
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    Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Anindilyakwa people on Groote Eylandt and Bickerton Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory...
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  • Angurugu, Northern Territory (category Groote Eylandt)
    Angurugu is a community located on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory, Australia. The main spoken languages are Anindilyakwa, an Australian Aboriginal...
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  • The Groote Eylandt Mining Company, known by its acronym GEMCO, is an Australian company that was commissioned to mine high grade manganese ore. GEMCO is...
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    Anindilyakwa people (Warnumamalya) are Aboriginal Australian people living on Groote Eylandt, Bickerton Island, and Woodah Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the...
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  • The Groote Eylandt monitor (Varanus insulanicus) is a medium-sized species of monitor lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is native to Northern...
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  • Alyangula, Northern Territory (category Groote Eylandt)
    Alyangula is the largest township on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory. Groote Eylandt Mining Company (GEMCO) established Alyangula as the residence...
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    Arnhem land (meaning "Wild Country"), from the Cobourg Peninsula to Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Kayu Jawa was the name for the fishing grounds...
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    are still found at Australian locations such as Port Essington and Groote Eylandt. The Makassans also planted tamarind trees (native to Madagascar and...
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    Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt and into the Gulf Country. It is a small subspecies with a long and thinner bill, with birds of Groote Eylandt possibly even...
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  • Dam Brisbane to Weipa Brisbane to Moranbah Cairns to Weipa Cairns to Groote Eylandt Perth to Kalgoorlie Alliance Airlines operates fly-in fly-out air services...
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    square kilometres (886 sq mi), comparatively equivalent to Australia's Groote Eylandt. It is bordered by Nepal to the north, Madhubani district to the east...
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    (Central Sulawesi) 192 Uarini Island 2,339 903 Brazil (Amazonas) 193 Groote Eylandt 2,285 882 Australia (Northern Territory) 194 Yapen 2,278 880 Indonesia...
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    land, (meaning literally "Wild Country") from the Cobourg Peninsula to Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Kayu Jawa was the name for the fishing grounds...
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    Island), Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, Kangaroo Island and Groote Eylandt. Indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, however, are not Aboriginal...
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    including the Tiwi Islands (Bathurst Island and Melville Island), and Groote Eylandt as well as many smaller ones. Most savanna in Australia is used for...
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    ship, the Arnhem, which itself was named after the city of Arnhem. Groote Eylandt was first sighted the Arnhem. Only in 1644, when Abel Tasman arrived...
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    off NE Groote Eylandt Important Bird Area comprises a small (10 ha), unnamed, sand and rock island off the north-eastern coast of Groote Eylandt in the...
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  • Umbakumba is a community located on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory, Australia. The main spoken languages are Anindilyakwa...
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    services to and from Darwin and Cairns and once weekly services to Groote Eylandt. Scheduled services are also operated by Mission Aviation Fellowship...
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    explorer Matthew Flinders made landfall on rugged Chasm Island off Groote Eylandt. Within the island's rock shelters, Flinders discovered an array of...
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    interpreted as showing off). Another example is the Australian Aboriginals of Groote Eylandt and Bickerton Island, off the coast of Arnhem Land, who have arranged...
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    Stradbroke Island, Montague Island, Kangaroo Island, the Nuyts Archipelago, Groote Eylandt and the Tiwi Islands. In Tasmania, they may be found essentially throughout...
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    and had three siblings. He was born on a remote mission station on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory, the first white child born on the island...
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  • the continent. Its European name was given when, after sailing around Groote Eylandt between 5 and 14 January 1803, Matthew Flinders and his accompanying...
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  • Bickerton Island (category Groote Eylandt)
    Bickerton Island is 13 km west of Groote Eylandt and 8 km east of the mouth of Blue Mud Bay in eastern Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia...
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  • Aboriginal boys and men in front of a bush shelter, Groote Eylandt, c. 1933...
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  • Island, South Australia (SA), 4,416 square kilometres (1,705 sq mi); Groote Eylandt (NT), 2,285 square kilometres (882 sq mi); Bathurst Island (NT), 1,693...
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  • 41 Aqura Technologies Pty Unknown Unknown Former OTOC 505 42 GEMCO Groote Eylandt Mining Company Pty Ltd Unknown Unknown 505 43 Arrow Energy Pty Ltd Unknown...
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