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Newcastle Harbour

(Encyclopedia)Newcastle Harbour, Australia: see Hunter, Port. ...

Kosciusko, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Kosciusko, Mount, Australia: see Kosciuszko, Mount. ...

K'gari

(Encyclopedia)K'gari, island, Australia: see Fraser Island. ...

Van Diemen's Land

(Encyclopedia)Van Diemen's Land: see Tasmania, Australia. ...

Great Sandy Island

(Encyclopedia)Great Sandy Island, Australia: see Fraser Island. ...

Murdoch, Rupert

(Encyclopedia)Murdoch, Rupert (Keith Rupert Murdoch), 1931–, Australian-American publishing magnate. Combining sensationalist journalism (often reflective of his generally hawkish, strongly conservative political...

Thursday Island

(Encyclopedia)Thursday Island (2016 pop. 2,938), Queensland, NE Australia, N of Cape York Peninsula, in Torres Strait. It is the administrative and commercial center of the Torres Strait Islands. ...

Australian aborigines

(Encyclopedia)Australian aborigines, indigenous peoples of Australia. The first modern humans in Australia probably came from somewhere in Asia more than 40,000 years ago, most likely sometime between 55,000 and 10...

Bundaberg

(Encyclopedia)Bundaberg, city and region, Queensland, E Australia, on the Burnett River. The city, a sugar-refining center and a port, was amalgamated in 2008 with ne...

Ayers Rock

(Encyclopedia)Ayers Rock, monolith, Australia: alternative name for Uluru. See Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park. ...