#cape york peninsula

[oceaniatropics]

Palm Cockatoo, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia, by duffohyeah

[famousinuniverse]

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia: Fruit Bat Falls is nestled in the incredible Jardine River National Park in Cape York. Cape York Peninsula is a peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest wilderness in northern Australia. The land is mostly flat and about half of the area is used for grazing cattle. Wikipedia

[whats-in-a-sentence]

He travelled the Cape, not with an interpreter but an escort of the Native Police, speaking to those "whose evidence is really of value". He came away convinced the Native Police should not only survive but be strengthened.

So long as bushmen, pioneers, prospectors of our own race require protection, or lost persons and criminals, white or black, are able to be tracked in the wilds of the bush, and so long as we have wild uncivilised blacks to control, punish, or in any way look after, deal with, or even feed in their native haunts, I consider strong native police detachments a necessity.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

[mutant-distraction]

The Rose-breasted Cockatoo. . .

The rose-breasted cockatoo, also known as the galah (Eolophus roseicapilla), is a captivating Australian bird species.

The galah is approximately 35 cm in length and weighs 270–350 g. Its plumage includes a pale silver to grey back, a pink face, and a pink breast, along with a light pink mobile crest. The eye ring has bare, carunculated skin, and the legs are gray. Adult males have very dark brown (almost black) irises, while adult females have mid-brown or red irises. Juveniles have a grayish breast, crown, and crest, with brown irises and non-carunculated eye rings.

The galah is widespread throughout mainland Australia, except for the driest areas and the far north of Cape York Peninsula. It has also been introduced to Tasmania through human activities and has become common there. Galahs thrive in metropolitan areas like Adelaide, Perth, and Melbourne, as well as in open habitats with scattered trees for shelter. While they are mostly found in inland regions, they are rapidly colonizing coastal areas.

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Image credit: deepak_karra

Text credit: Earth of Wonders

[drstonetrivia]

Chapter 209 Trivia

Why would you remove your shirts!? And how did you not die of an ebullism before you could artfully arrange your capes around your waists?

The Senku 11 here is a reference to the Apollo 11 spaceflight which landed people on the moon for the first time in 1969.

Also, the return of Suika's full melon helmet!

Aluminum has two usages for the rocket: the body, and fuel. It's strong and light-weight, but alone it can't handle the heat of reentry. This is fine since Senku doesn't plan to return.

As fuel, it needs special conditions to release energy, such as those made with thermite.

Cape York Peninsula is where Senku was headed, specifically for Weipa and Amrun, which account for most of Australia's bauxite production. Australia produces around 105 million metric tons of it per year, compared to China (68 million) and Guinea (64 million).

Bauxite itself is a dull, reddish rock made from a mix of aluminum minerals and iron oxides, and the main raw source of all aluminum on Earth. It's usually strip mined as it's found near the surface, and can be done environmentally responsibly by replacing the topsoil afterward.

A few people seemed confused by this random person here: the KoS had already begun reviving people in Australia (hence the buildings show in the previous panel), but they were running low on supplies to revive/feed the manpower they required to get sufficient amounts of bauxite.

Bucket wheel excavators are some of the largest vehicles ever produced, with a few of them featured in the Guinness World Records for their size, though not all of them are huge. They're used to continuously dig up large amounts of dirt and transport it away using conveyor belts.

In the Japanese version, Gen only says "bake*… Excalibur?" rather than the full joke the English translator @CDCubed came up with, "basket-weave Excalibur".

*Bake here is pronounced "bah-keh", and is a shortened version of "baketto" meaning "bucket".

The ship here has influences from the Americans: zig-zag patterns and stripes. The boat's name seems to be "NXN" but I couldn't find a meaning or a reference for it. It's a catamaran— it has two hulls to increase stability and reduce drag, allowing it to be more fuel-efficient.

The food here is all made from corn: corn tortillas to make burritos and tacos, cornbread muffins, then what I assume is corn chowder or soup.

I hope this isn't Yo since he's clothed in the next image, but Suika appears to be getting flashed by a naked person with spiky hair covering themselves up with a tray…

Last chapter we had a moon phase near the new moon, and this time we have a full moon, meaning at least 2 weeks have passed since the mathlympics.

Ryusui, Senku, and Tsukasa are shown on the surface of the moon, but they are not necessarily the three going on the mission itself. The roles they need to fill are "pilot", "scientist", and "warrior", that trio simply fit.

We also know that Tsukasa's choices were Taiju and Chrome, but that was before Ryusui was introduced.

In addition, we've seen that Chrome won't let Senku go on a suicide mission.

I wonder if we'll get an Australian character added to the team, or if the KoS will move on immediately.

I just think Australian slang would be a great addition with Chelsea and Gen around…

[tropic-havens]

Magnificent riflebird in Cape York Peninsula, Far North Queensland, Australia

[asknyoaustralia]

Miss Adelaide, sorry for asking but how old are you?

"Ah, mate, normally I'd give ya a bit of a ribbing for askin' 'bout age, but truth be told, I ain't fussed. Physically, I'm about 26 or so. But if you're talkin' actual age, 'bout 417 years or thereabouts. Back then, keepin' records wasn't exactly our strong suit, so reckon there's a bit of leeway there."

>For Adelaide, I've always put her coming around in the early 1600s. In 1606, the first European explorations were underway. Specifically, Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon landed on the Cape York Peninsula, and Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through and navigated the Torres Strait islands. However, Adelaide wouldn't interact with Europeans until the 1770s, when the East Coast was charted. Until that time, she lived with the Kamilaroi.

[yeli-renrong]

When Ken Hale sent the Jabugay tape, he'd urged me to try to find aspeaker of Barbaram, the apparently aberrant language that Lizzie Simmons had declined to speak to us. Certainly Dyirbal and Jabugay had very normal Australian grammar and vocabulary, not radically different from the Western Desert language, almost two thousand miles away. But from the few words that Norman Tindale had published of Barbaram, that language looked really different.

People at Mareeba had mentioned Albert Bennett, at Petford, and early one Sunday morning I set out to try to locate him. I followed the winding bitumen road through Mareeba to Dimbulah, a small Italian-dominated town whose main crop was tobacco, usually with a few fields of marijuana hidden away round the back. From there it became a faint sandy track with no signposts at all. ...

Albert was an oldish, square-framed man with curly grey hair. He was sitting stolidly on a bench just outside his open front door. I introduced myself, but he really wasn't very interested. He didn't remember any Barbaram language, but who'd want it anyway? What good was it?

Now Stephen Wurm had prepared me for questions of this sort. Don't talk about universities, Wurm had said, they won't know what they are. Tell them you come from the museum in Canberra. Everyone knows what museums are, and everyone thinks they are good things. Say you want to put their language in the museum because it's something important. So that it can be preserved - one day their grandchildren can come and listen to it, and see how the old people spoke.

I tried this line on Albert Bennett and he seemed to soften a little. But he still sat quietly chewing on a piece of grass, on the end of the wooden bench, just in the shade. I stood in the sun and hoped. Finally he volunteered a word.

"You know what we call 'dog'?" he asked. I waited anxiously. "We call it dog." My heart sank - he'd pronounced it just like the English word, except that the fInal g was forcefully released. I wrote it down anyway. ...

Barbaram was still a major priority. Following Albert Bennett's suggestion, I'd located Mick Burns, living with his daughter's family in a house on tall stilts at the south end of Edmonton. He was a tall, light-skinned man, very old. He hadn't thought about his language in years, and didn't think he could help me. But I persisted, mentioned a few of the words Albert had given, and he grudgingly thought a bit. Mick Burns sat on the top step, leaning against the door frame, and I squatted on the step below. He remembered twenty-seven words. ... When I did go back the next week, he declined to talk at all. He'd done a bit of thinking, he said, and could remember nothing else. I'd have to go back to Albert.

At her suggestion, I had telephoned Mrs McGrath and asked her to pass on a message to Albert about when I was planning to come, so that he wouldn't go out fishing. Albert seemed quite happy - if not pleased - to see me, and made room for me to sit on the bench with him, out of the sun.

"I don't think I can help you much more ," he said, when I told him about Mick. "I did remember three more words, but I can't think of them now. Oh, heck." ...

Four years later, when I was spending a year at Harvard and first met Ken Hale, he pointed out that the e and o had developed in Mbabaram in the same sort of way as in some languages he had worked on from further up the Cape York Peninsula. An a in the second syllable of a word had become o if the word had originally begun with g. So from guwa "west", Mbabaram had derived wo. We were sitting on a beach near Gloucester, Massachusetts one Sunday in September when Ken suddenly saw the etymology for dog "dog". It came from an original gudaga, which is still the word for dog in Yidin (Dyirbal has shortened it to guda). The initial g would have raised the a in the second syllable to o, the initial ga dropped and so did the final a (another common change in the development of Mbabaram). Ergo, gudaga became dog ­- a one in a million accidental similarity of form and meaning in two unrelated languages. It was because this was such an interesting coincidence, that Albert Bennett had thought of it as the first word to give me.

R. M. W. Dixon, Memoirs of a Field Worker

[oceaniatropics]

Striped Possum (Dactylopsila trivirgata), Queensland, Australia 

[privatedarius]

Eliot Falls, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland

[lattesforlife]

For those who live in New Jersey and those who visit . . . .

New Jersey is a peninsula.

Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida.

New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.

New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.

New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana, Cuba.

New Jersey has the densest system of highways and railroads in the US.

New Jersey has the highest cost of living.

New Jersey has the highest cost of auto insurance.

New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation.

New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the "Diner Capital of the World."

New Jersey is home to the original Mystery Pork Parts Club (not Spam): Taylor Ham or Pork Roll.

Home to the less mysterious but the best Italian hot dogs and Italian sausage w/peppers and onions.

North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius.

The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by inventor John P. Holland .

New Jersey has 50+ resort cities & towns; some of the nation's most famous: Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Cape May.

New Jersey has the most stringent testing along its coastline for water quality control than any other seaboard state in the entire country.

New Jersey is a leading technology & industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals.

Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can buy.

New Jersey is the world leader in blueberry and cranberry production (and here you thought Massachusetts?)

Here's to New Jersey - the toast of the country! In 1642, the first brewery in America, opened in Hoboken.

New Jersey rocks! The famous Les Paul invented the first solid body electric guitar in Mahwah, in 1940.

New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US, located in Elizabeth. Nearly 80 percent of what our nation imports comes through Elizabeth Seaport first.

New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports (in Newark), Liberty International.

George Washington slept there.

Several important Revolutionary War battles were fought on New Jersey soil, led by General George Washington.

The light bulb, phonograph (record player), and motion picture projector, were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park, NJ, laboratory

Jersey also boasts the first town lit by incandescent bulbs. The first seaplane was built in Keyport , NJ.

The first airmail (to Chicago) was started from Keyport, NJ.

The first phonograph records were made in Camden, NJ

New Jersey was home to the Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City.

The game Monopoly, played all over the world, named the streets on its playing board after the actual streets in Atlantic City. And, Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world, not to mention salt water taffy. ( Now made in Pennsylvania)..

New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle East countries.

The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey, in the Watchung Mountains

New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world. (Union, NJ!!!)

New Jersey had the first medical center, in Jersey City

The Pulaski Sky Way, from Jersey City to Newark, was the first skyway highway.

New Jersey built the first tunnel under a river, the Hudson (Holland Tunnel).

The first baseball game was played in Hoboken, NJ, which is also the birthplace of Frank Sinatra.

The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick in 1889 (Rutgers College played Princeton).

The first drive-in movie theater was opened in Camden, NJ, (but they're all gone now!).

New Jersey is home to both of "NEW YORK'S" pro football teams!

The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson, NJ.

The first FM radio broadcast was made from Alpine, NJ, by Maj. Thomas Armstrong.

All New Jersey natives: Sal Martorano, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifah, Susan Sarandon, Connie Francis, Shaq, Judy Blume, Aaron Burr, Joan Robertson, Ken Kross, Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughn, Budd Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, Zack Braff Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Linda McElroy, Eileen Donnelly, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman, Jerry Lewis, Tom Cruise, Joyce Kilmer, Bruce Willis, Caesar Romero, Lauryn Hill, Ice-T, Nick Adams, Nathan Lane, Sandra Dee, Danny DeVito, Richard Conti, Joe Pesci, Joe Piscopo, Joe DePasquale, Robert Blake, John Forsythe, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd, Paul Simon, Jerry Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Phyllis Newman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Eva Marie Saint, Elisabeth Shue, Zebulon Pike, James Fennimore Cooper, Admiral Wm.Halsey,Jr.,Norman Schwarzkopf, Dave Thomas (Wendy's), William Carlos Williams, Ray Liotta, Robert Wuhl, Bob Reyers, Paul Robeson, Ernie Kovacs, Joseph Macchia, Kelly Ripa, and Francis Albert Sinatra and "Uncle Floyd" Vivino.

The Great Falls in Paterson, on the Passaic River, is the 2nd highest waterfall on the East Coast of the US.

You know you're from Jersey when . . . .

You don't think of fruit when people mention "The Oranges." You know that it's called Great Adventure, not Six Flags. A good, quick breakfast is a hard roll with butter. You've known the way to Seaside Heights since you were seven. You know that the state isn't one big oil refinery. At least three people in your family still love Bruce Springsteen, and you know the town Jon Bon Jovi is from. You know what a "jug handle" is. You know that WaWa is a convenience store. You know that the state isn't all farmland. You know that there are no "beaches" in New Jersey--there's the shore--and you don't go "to the shore," you go "down the shore." And when you are there, you're not "at the shore"; you are "down the shore." You know how to properly negotiate a circle. You knew that the last sentence had to do with driving. You know that this is the only "New" state that doesn't require "New" to identify it (try . . Mexico . . . York ..! . . Hampshire-- doesn't work, does it?). You know that a "White Castle" is the name of BOTH a fast food chain AND a fast food sandwich. You consider putting mayo on a corned beef sandwich a sacrilege. You don't think "What exit?" is very funny. You know that people from the 609 area code are "a little different." Yes they are! You know that no respectable New Jerseyan goes to Princeton--that's for out-of-staters. You live within 20 minutes of at least three different malls. You refer to all highways and interstates by their numbers. Every year you have at least one kid in your class named Tony. You know the location of every clip shown in the Sopranos opening credits. You've gotten on the wrong highway trying to get out of the mall. You know that people from North Jersey go to Seaside Heights, and people from Central Jersey go to LBI, and people from South Jersey go to Wildwood. It can be no other way. You weren't raised in New Jersey--you were raised in either North Jersey, Central Jersey or South Jersey. You don't consider Camden to actually be part of the state You remember the stores Korvette's, Two Guys, Rickel's, Channel, Bamberger's and Orbach's. You also remember Palisades Amusement Park. You've had a boardwalk cheese steak and vinegar fries. You start planning for Memorial Day weekend in February.

And finally . .

You've NEVER, NEVER NEVER, EVER pumped your own gas.

(Copied from a friend)

[sophreas]

Hello and welcome back, i hope the year is starting off right for you.

We will start the year off with some birbs. Am i gonna do every day? Who knows. But some birds never hurt nobody.

I'll be following the birbfest prompt list by birdietam.art over on Instagram

The frill-necked monarch (Arses lorealis) is endemic to the rainforests of the northern Cape York Peninsula in Australia. It measures around 14 cm. It's nest is a shallow cup made from vines and sticks, held together with spider webs and plant material with a decoration of lichen.

[nixieofthenorth]

Little joey 📍 near Cape Spencer Lighthouse on the Yorke peninsula in South Australia. 📸 @red_hot_shotz

[sagistgroup]

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[critter-of-the-day]

8th of September 2024: Cape York Rock Wallaby

A shorter post, as there is little data out there on the Cape York Rock Wallaby (Petrogale coenensis). They are exclusive to the Cape York Peninsula in the North East of Australia. Before being declared their own species in 1992 based upon chromosomal analysis, they were considered to be the “Cape York Race” of P. godmani [1].

They are, as the other species of rock wallabies, distributed in rocky habitats such as rocky outcrops [2], though they can also be found in deciduous vine thickets and areas with plants. They’ll rest in rock formations during the day, but in the afternoon come out to eat in surrounding woodlands or grasslands [3]. Males have a body length of around half a metre, with females being slightly smaller [4].

They live in colonies of usually less than 15 individuals, though one has been noted to have 100. A generally low population size combined with several threats such as wildfires, habitat degradation, and even feral cats eating young Cape York Rock Wallabies, has led to them being categorised as Endangered both in Australia [4] and internationally [3].

Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [Image] 

[whitepolaris]

The Thunderbird

Virtually every Native American culture has stories a giant magical bird, which most call the Thunderbird. The names from the sound the bird's wings make when in full flight, like thunderclaps. The Thunderbird's wings, it was said, were larger than two canoes, and the feathers the size of canoe paddles. Its eyes glowed red, and lightning shot out of its claws. At least two thunderbirds flew in Washington: one in the Cascade Mountains, and the other in Olympic Mountains of the Puget Sound.

The first bird lived part of the time inside Mount Saint Helens. It created earthquakes and volcanic eruptions when it rolled over in its sleep. When awake, it lived at the bottom of Spirit Lake, at the foot of the mountain. The native people saw the water bubble and froth when the Thunderbird was angry. According to one legend, this bird attacked many other creatures, until Raven killed it, after which the Thunderbird's body fell into the Columbia River, where it formed several islands. Other people believe it is still alive and responsible for the recent eruption at the mountain.

The second Thunderbird was friendlier to humanity. Many generations ago, the Quillayute people of the Olympic Peninsula were starving, in part because a giant killer whale was eating all the fish. Their chieftain appealed to the Great Spirit for help, and it summoned the Thunderbird. The Thunderbird appeared to the people with the body of the whale in its claws and gave it to them to eat, then flew to Mount Olympus, where it made its home. Though this bird was helpful to humans, it valued its privacy. Hunters climbing the mountain were frightened away by ice- and rockfalls it created when it smelled them nearby.

It addition to explaining natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the Thunderbird legends have some basis in fact. Some people think they were (and are) eagles, which are not common in the area but are known to the native people. And the largest living bird in North America, the California condor, makes its home in the Sierra Madre. A long way to travel to Washington State. Or is it?

Even the Lewis and Clark expedition had an experience with a giant bird. On November 18, 1805, Captain Clark led a party of eleven men to Cape Disappointment, where they saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time. On that trip, one of the men killed a bird they had never seen before, one with a wingspan of over nine feet. Based on their description, it was a California condor. A small population of these birds probably had survived the mountains of the Pacific Northwest until the arrival of Europeans, when they were hunted into extinction.

There are other possible explanations for the mighty Thunderbird. In 2005, a group from the Oregon Archaeological Society was excavating a site near Woodburn, Oregon. They found what they thought was an elk bone, but upon farther analysis it was discovered that the bone and several others on-site belonged to an ancient bird known as the Teratorn. Teratorn bones have recently been found in Argentina and all across North America-in Oregon, California, Florida, and New York. The largest example found had a wingspan of over twenty-four feet and weighed over 170 pounds. It was probably a carnivore, as it had a beak and jaw designed to pick up and swallow small prey whole. These birds probably thrived at the end of the last Ice Age. Paleontologists think they died out as the glaciers melted.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, several people living in southeast Washington reported seeing a large bird with a wingspan the size of a Piper Cub airplane. And passengers on an airplane once sighted one of these birds flying next to them. A cryptozoologist, a researcher who studies such unknown animals, noted that most of these sightings happened when people were the edge of large storm fronts. He suggested that birds this size needed the high winds to generate enough lift for them to fly, which earned them the name of Thunderbirds.

Some wildlife biologists are discussing plans to introduce California condors to the Columbia River gorge. The birds are not afraid of humans or human activities, and many of those raised in captivity and released into the wild have been killed when interacting with people or structures such as power lines. The human population in the Columbia River gorge scenic area is much lower than in southern California, and the birds may have a better chance of surviving there.