#gulf of carpentaria

[tenth-sentence]

That afternoon Landsborough left D'arcy's party to cross the island on foot.

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

[memoryscan]

my dad the skipper, gulf of carpenteria early 1980’s

[whats-in-a-sentence]

He rendered the painting on bark with the standard crosshatched background but with an innovative image of the Rainbow Serpent wrapped around the hull of the ship and its three masts depicted as decorated poles of the type used in ceremonies (see Figure 13).

"Design: Building on Country" - Alison Page and Paul Memmott

[olivers-cocoapuffs]

crying my aunt js sent me a photo of the airport in cairns and the planes are just fucking floating around its that flooded 😭😭

[luff-gore]

G. Gore del. / Graham Gore drew (it) A compilation [1/?]

engravings, based on original sketches (c. 1841) in: John Lort Stokes' Discoveries in Australia (vol. 1 / vol. 2, 1846)

I cannot allow these volumes to go before the public, without expressing my thanks to the following gentlemen for assistance, afforded to me in the course of the composition of this work: [...] to Lieutenants [Graham] Gore and [Lewis Roper] Fitzmaurice, for many of the sketches which illustrate the work [...]

1-2: South branch of the Albert River [in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia] / North West part of Magnetical Island [Yunbenun (Magnetic Island), Australia)]

3-4: Killing an Alligator, Victoria River [in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, Australia] / Coepang [Kupang, Indonesia], from the Anchorage

5-6: Passing between Bald Head & Vancouver Reefs [in Mammang-Koort (King George Sound), Australia] / Entrance of Van Diemen's Inlet [in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia]

7-8: Burial Reach, Flinders River / Upward view of Hope Reach, Albert River [in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia]

9-10: First View of the Plains of Promise, Albert River [in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia] / Last View of the Plains of Promise, Albert River

[tcr55]

The lightship Carpentaria was built at Sydney’s Cockatoo Island in 1917 and served most of its time in (unsurprisingly) in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

It was last stationed down south in the Bass Strait oil fields until it was retired in 1985.

Home is now the maritime museum.

[notwiselybuttoowell]

In the past two years Glasgow has become the first UK museum to repatriate objects to India. Newcastle and the Horniman in south London followed an example set by Aberdeen and Cambridge by returning looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria. Exeter handed sacred regalia to the Siksika Nation in Canada. Oxford returned the remains of 18 indigenous people to Australia.

Earlier this month Manchester completed a landmark return of 174 objects to the to the Anindilyakwa community, who live on an archipelago in the Gulf of Carpentaria, off the northern coast of Australia.

The scale of repatriation – or rematriation as it was proudly labelled by a Scottish national museum returning a totem pole to Canada – is unprecedented but missing from all this, campaigners say, are the nation’s London-based national museums who look increasingly isolated.

“Regional museums are so far ahead of national institutions,” said Lewis McNaught, who runs the not-for-profit Returning Heritage project.

“It has been led by Glasgow and it really just remains for national collections to wake up to the trend which is, actually, now global. The UK is really falling behind quite dramatically.”

Dan Hicks, a professor of contemporary archaeology at Oxford University as well as curator at the city’s Pitt Rivers Museum, said repatriation has become part of the “fake culture wars” with some on the right seeing it as “wokery”.

“What that means, sadly, for our national institutions is that they are being forced into a position of inertia and making themselves increasingly irrelevant with every week that goes by and every restitution that we see from the regions and elsewhere around the world.

“Everyone else is getting on with it.”

The big reasons for the two different narratives is that the London-based national museums are hamstrung by legislation.

The British Museum Act 1963 specifically forbids the museum from disposing of its holdings. The National Heritage Act of 1983 prevents trustees of institutions, including the V&A, Science Museum and others, from deaccessioning objects unless they are duplicates or beyond repair.

Regional museums, whether they are run by local authorities, universities or are regimental museums or private, don’t have the same issue.

But the picture is more complicated, said Hicks, and repatriation is also not a new issue or debate.

“There is a deep and long history to restitution in this country. Edinburgh university was returning human remains two generations ago, never mind one generation … there are scores if not hundreds of stories over the past 40 to 50 years.

“It should be part of what museums do. It’s a part of the job.”

Glasgow is seen as a leader in the repatriation conversation since an agreement in 1998 to return a Sioux warrior shirt acquired at the end of the 19th century from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.

The return of the Lakota Sacred Ghost Dance Shirt to the Wounded Knee Survivors’ Association established criteria that have been widely adopted in the museum sector.

Duncan Dornan, the head of museums and collections at Glasgow Life, said repatriation should be seen as a two way process and recalled the joy at the signing ceremony last year for the repatriation of artefacts to India.

“It was a very emotional event and Glaswegians of Indian heritage were very emotional. Their response was that they were very proud of their city.

“We see repatriation as establishing a relationship of equals and emphasising Glasgow as an outward-looking modern city.

“This is about a 21st-century relationship rather than a historic relationship.”

The recent Manchester Museum return of objects was seen as important because they were not giving back things that had been looted. They were everyday objects, including dolls made from shells, baskets and boomerangs.

“We believe this is the future of museums,” said Esme Ward, the director of Manchester Museum. “This is how we should be.”

Unesco hopes that Manchester will be a model for other museums to follow. Krista Pikkat, Unesco’s director for culture and emergencies, said: “It is a truly historic and moving moment. This is a case we have shared with our member states because we felt it was exemplary in many ways.”

The UK government has no plans to change the law that could then lead to movement in some of the most high-profile repatriation debates such as the Parthenon marbles and the Benin bronzes.

Campaigners say the UK is looking increasingly isolated and there is a growing movement for a change in the law.

Lord Vaizey, a former long-serving Conservative arts minister, has said the 1983 act ��makes it almost impossible for UK museums to establish themselves as outward-looking, modern institutions fit for purpose in the 21st century”.

There are ways of getting around it. The V&A announced last year that it was returning the Head of Eros, a life-sized marble carving dating back to the 3rd century AD, to Turkey to be reattached to the famous Sidamara sarcophagus.

It made good a promise made by the British government in 1934 but the return is essentially a long-term loan, not an unconditional return.

Across the world, from the US to France to Germany and the Vatican, countries are repatriating objects. “Almost everywhere you look, items are being returned,” said McNaught.

In July, for example, the Netherlands repatriated nearly 500 looted objects to Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

The objects going to Sri Lanka include the famous and fabulous ruby-inlaid Cannon of Kandy dating from 1745, one of six objects from the Rijkmuseum that represented the very first return of colonial items from the museum’s collection.

The Vatican has also voiced willingness to return indigenous artefacts. “The seventh commandment comes to mind: If you steal something you have to give it back,” Pope Francis said in April.

The London-based national museums are undoubtedly hamstrung by law but that does not stop the regular calls for the return of objects.

Some cases are indisputable, say campaigners.

McNaught pointed to Ethiopian tabots that have been in the British Museum’s stores for more than 150 years.

The wood and stone tabots are altar tablets, considered by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as the dwelling place of God on Earth and the representation of the Ark of the Covenant.

“They have never been exhibited and they never will,” said McNaught. “They have never been studied. They have never been photographed. The only people who can release these items are trustees and they can’t see them either.

“So if you are a trustee and you say, ‘Let me see what all the fuss is about,’ then you can’t.”

[charlesandmartine]

Monday 18th November 2024

Surprise, Surprise, on waking this morning, we found it was raining but still very warm. So, a little precipitation wasn't going to stop us from enjoying Cloncurry. The first port of call had to be the tourist information centre a mere 500 meters down the Flinders Highway. The TI was also home to the Cloncurry Unearthed Visitor Museum. They were extremely pleasant there and didn't hesitate to sell two concessions to us, enabling us to appreciate both their museum and also John Flynn Place, another museum marking the work of the Flying Doctor Services. Back in 1860, two explorers' names became famous for their exploits in surveying the interior of Australia. Previously, we have been enthralled by the courage of John McDouall Stuart. Two more of his ilk are Burke and Wills, who set off from Melbourne in Southern Australia to find a route north to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Initially, a team of 19 men set out. They made it to Coopers Creek, approximately a little under halfway, after battling with poor roads, bad weather, and broken wagons. At Coopers, they created a depot for supplies. Burke, Wills, and two others set off alone for the remaining chunk of the journey. They made it north, although due to dense swamps, they were unable to make it to the coast. Returning the way they had come was fraught with difficulties, running seriously short of food, they had to eat three of their camels, (tastes like chicken) a horse and a python, which gave one of their companions Charles Gray dysentery. Should have had chicken, they most likely said. Gray sadly died of his dysentery and was buried on route. Things were now desperate; equipment jettisoned and very weak, the party managed to get back to the depot at Coopers Creek, only to find it had been abandoned hours earlier. Now, without food and too weak to follow the others, Burke carved B&W, C11, 1861 on a tree stump to leave a message that they had arrived. The stump is now in the museum and bears the marks Burke made on the tree. Both Burke and Wills died shortly afterwards, and Alfred William Howitt was dispatched later in 1861 to recover the remains and return them for a proper funeral in Melbourne General Cemetery. What a sad end to such brave and enterprising men, but the route was now charted.

The museum held other treasures such as the actual police station removed from Mary Kathleen town plus other artefacts from the Uranium exploration. The lady on reception was able to recount stories of Mary Kathleen town, or Mary K, as she refers to it from the time her brother had worked there and also playing sport with children from the Mary Kathleen school. These stories made the community come alive. Amazingly, they had the actual Geiger counter that detected the radioactivity that started the whole chain of events.

The follow-up museum was to the John Flynn Place. John Flynn was a man at the right time in history. In 1907 when he studied theology, aircraft were just taking to the skies, radio was being developed and through his Presbyterian ministry he understood truly isolated communities and he felt a need to bring medical assistance to these peoples. A few key things then happened. In 1911, John was ordained a Presbyterian minister. He was persuaded to write a book of elementary first aid for people in the outback, and he met Hudson Fysh in 1921, one of the cofounders of Qantas, who suggested that air transport might open up the country and be able to help people in John's communities. But it wasn't until 1924 that Qantas took delivery of their first de Havilland DH50 that they could practically help out. Qantas was conceived in Cloncurry, and John opened the first Flying Doctor Service working from an airfield in Cloncurry. The development of a pedal powered radio system meant that people in the outback where there would be no electricity could call in for advice and help. Diagnosis charts were drawn up, concerned people would radio in, and if it was required, the doctor would fly out from Cloncurry to all remote areas of Queensland. The service still runs today but operates all over Australia, serving those tiny remote places and from 23 bases and using 79 planes. What a vision.

The remainder of our day out took us to Chinaman Creek Dam which feeds Cloncurry with water, then back to the Unearthed Visitor Museum to see some wallabies gathering on the lawns outside for a meeting. We suspected they might gather just before sunset, and there they were.

Tomorrow, we are off again, this time to Julia Creek, but on route, we plan to make a detour to McKinlay to see the bar featured in Crocodile Dundee.

ps. Another guest here asked me if i knew what FORD stood for? No, I said. Answer, found on rubbish dumps. He thought it was immensely funny. Clearly, not a fan.

[therhythmic2000]

image of "morning glory clouds" at the gulf of carpentaria, australia still one of my favourite photographs

photo took by mike petroff

[snakebusters]

From Hoser, 2014

FORTITERCARINATA TASTYWHENCRISPY SP. NOV.

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Holotype: A preserved specimen at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, specimen number R21746 collected from the Tjaynera Falls Area, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Latitude -13.25 S., Longitude 130.733 E.

This government-owned facility allows access to its holdings.

Paratypes: Five preserved specimens at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, being 1/ Specimen number R21733 collected from the Tjaynera Falls Area, Litchfield National Park, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, Latitude -13.25 S., Longitude 130.733 E., 2/ Specimen numbers R12871 and R12888 both collected from Wangi Falls, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Latitude -13.163 S., Longitude 130.685 E., 3/ Specimen number R12098 collected from Tolmer Falls, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Latitude -13.207 S., Longitude 130.713 E., 4/ Specimen number R12082 collected from Sandy Creek Falls, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Latitude -13.25 S., Longitude 130.75 E.

Diagnosis: Fortitercarinata amax (Storr, 1974), until now known as Carlia amax, with a type locality of Mitchell Plateau, Northwest Kimberley District, Western Australia, has been treated by most authors as a single taxon occupying the tropical north of Australia from the Kimberley District, across the Northern Territory to the hilly areas on the south shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Divergent from this was Wells and Wellington (1985), who formally named a divergent form from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia (type locality of Koongarra, NT, Latitude -12.9384 S., Longitude 132.8051 E.) as Carlia instantanea and also Storr (1974) who named a taxon as Carlia johnstonei grandensis, from Groote Eylandt in the north east of the Northern Territory, which significantly Wells and Wellington (1985) also elevated to full species status.

Notwithstanding the fact that both “Carlia instantanea” and “Carlia grandensis” have been ignored by all publishing herpetologists in the 39 years since Wells and Wellington (1985) was first published, the molecular evidence of Potter et al. (2016) confirmed the taxonomy and nomenclature of Wells and Wellington (1985) to be correct in stark contrast to that of all other relevant publishing authors in the intervening period.

Herein, the three other unnamed forms identified by Potter et al. (2016) are formally named as new species.

Therefore, the Fortitercarinata amax (Storr, 1974) complex is as follows:

F. amax is effectively confined to the Kimberley District of Western Australia.

F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov. is the taxon from the Western section of the Top End of the Northern Territory, generally in a line west of between Darwin and the Victoria River District, with the centre of the population in the Litchfield National Park and Daly River districts.

F. grandensis occupies most parts of the tropical north of the top end, including Kakadu National Park, areas to the south that are hilly and extending to the west side of the Gulf of Carpentaria and including Groote Eylandt, being the type locality for that species.

F. instantanea contrary to the assertion of Wells and Wellington (1985) is not widespread in the ranges of the top end of the Northern Territory but is in fact confined to a relatively small part of the Arnhem Land escarpment, this being generally near the type locality. It is F. grandensis that is the more invasive and wide-ranging taxon.

F. tasteslikesheet sp. nov. is a range restricted taxon, apparently confined to the English Company’s Islands and the adjacent Wessel Islands in the far north-east of the Northern Territory.

F. faark sp. nov. occurs in the hills of the southern shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria, extending to the Selwyn Ranges in north-west Queensland.

The six taxa are readily separated from one another by different sets of characters as follows:

F. amax is a brown coloured lizard all over, with no significant contrast between the head and body upper surfaces colour, or if there is a contrast, it is usually only slight.

That is the head may be slightly more brownish than the greyish body, although quite often any slight transition in colour may be half-way down the trunk rather than between head and upper body (on neck) as seen as a rule in the other species.

The dorsum of F. amax has semi distinct dark spotting and more distinct scattered tiny white spots, which also run along most of the length of the tail. Other than the light spots and dull darker spotting, no lines run onto the tail from the body either on top or on the sides of the tail.

F. amax has white spotting separated from black spots on the dorsum, versus joined in all other species.

The belly is always whitish in this species, versus various configurations in the other five species, including whitish, greyish, with or without darker markings.

Upper surfaces of the limbs in F. amax are medium brown with dull blackish spots.

Most F. amax have contiguous prefrontals, versus generally not so in all the other species in the complex.

F. amax average 21 subdigital lamellae under the fourth toe, versus 23 in the other five species.

F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov. is separated from all other species in the complex by having slightly larger spotting than all others in the group (except for, F. faark sp. nov. which has similarly larger spots and blotches) and also well contrasting rather than semi-distinct dark and light spotting.

F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov. is separated from F. faark sp. nov. by having more dark spotting on the dorsum and especially the flanks in particular, versus F. faark sp. nov. which has a preponderance of white spotting, especially on the flanks and along the tail where they are prominent in that species alone there.

F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov. is further separated from the other five species in the complex by the fact that above the white line that runs from the front of the eye, under the eye to neck is a well-defined dark upper edge and line (contrasting with the lighter brown above this line). In all other species this dark line is either absent, or at best poorly defined and not strongly contrasting with the brown on top of the head.

F. grandensis has a dorsum that is brownish in colour and with moderately numerous very small dark brown dots, formed at the distal parts of some scales, more-or-less arranged longitudinally. There are occasionally a smaller number of scattered tiny white spots as well. These are less distinct on the flanks, making them more-or-less unmarked. Head on top is light brown and body is darker and greyish brown above. Upper labials are whitish, with slight dark etching and similar for lower labials.

In all other species in this complex, there is a well-defined white line that runs from near the nostril, across the underside of the eye, across the ear and along the side of the neck to terminate just anterior of the front leg.

This is not present in F. grandensis. In F. grandensis under the eye is white, but there is no obvious line extending beyond and along the neck. Instead, this area is the same brownish or greyish colour of the rest of the neck region.

F. instantanea has a dorsum that is greyish on top, not brown. On the dorsum is a series of spots formed by black and white sections joined, the black often in the form of tiny triangles superimposed over a white spot, leaving white on the sides of the black. On the flanks these black bits are expanded to form squares of 2-3 scales in size, with the white spots moved away from the black to form flecks on the otherwise light grey flank. The black on the flanks is in two rows, leaving a line along the mid flank without black. There are tiny white spots on this line as well as the rest of the flank.

Towards the hind limb and onto the tail, the density of the black on the flank increases to form a semi-well-defined band of black that extends halfway along the length of the tail, below which is a well-defined white line. The top of the tail is a medium grey.

Upper labials have thick, well-defined dark bars that terminate under the white line that runs below the eye.

Upper surfaces of limbs are light grey, but heavily marked with dark spots, blotches and bars giving them an overall mottled appearance.

There is a well-defined white line that runs from near the nostril, across the underside of the eye, across the ear and along the side of the neck to terminate just anterior of the front leg.

This is not present in F. grandensis as a species found in close proximity to this taxon and potentially sympatric with it.

F. tasteslikesheet sp. nov. is similar in most respects to F. instantanea but differs from that taxon by being a lighter sandy grey colour on top and with a generally washed-out appearance in terms of the dorsum. There is a greater preponderance of tiny white spots on top, versus the darker blackish ones, including when they are combined, but the white spots are not exceptionally numerous as seen in F. faark sp. nov.. Upper surfaces of the limbs in F. tasteslikesheet sp. nov. are generally light grey with scattered dark spots.

The head of F. tasteslikesheet sp. nov. is a light yellowish grey, rather than brownish as seen in F. grandensis or brown anteriorly and greyish brown at the back of the head as seen in F. instantanea.

F. faark sp. nov. is readily separated from the other five species by having a dull brown head, a dull grey body and an obvious preponderance of numerous scattered tiny white spots on the top of the body, the flanks and all over the tail. Any darker spotting is small in amount, very scattered, very dull and barely noticeable on close inspection.

Upper labials are white and with thin dark etching on the margins. There is no evidence of any dark line above the white line running under the eye. The upper sides of the head are the same colour as on top.

The upper surfaces of the limbs are brown with numerous scattered white spots and a lesser number of dull dark blackish ones.

No lines run along the sides of the tail.

The six preceding species, being F. amax, F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov., F. grandensis, F. instantanea, F. tasteslikesheet sp. nov. and F. faark sp. nov. are separated from all other species in the two genera, Carlia Gray, 1845 type species Mocoa melanopogon Gray, 1845 and Lygisaurus De Vis, 1884, type species Lygisaurus foliorum De Vis, 1884 as defined by Cogger (2014) by the following suite of characters:

Interparietal distinct (as in not fused to the frontoparietals); prefrontals in contact or narrowly separated; 5-8 (usually 6) supraciliaries; 26-35 midbody rows; dorsal scales are 6-sided, each usually with an angular posterior or free edge, mostly bicarinate and strongly keeled, the keels not being well aligned with the following scales; ear opening horizontally elliptical, much smaller than the palpebral disc and with only one small lobule on the anterior edge; 19-28 lamellae under the fourth toe. Colouration is mainly uniform above (more brownish on the head and ending greyish on the lower end of the body but varying with species). Distinct or semi-distinct spots and blotches on the body, all tiny in size and generally not distracting from the more-or-less uniform appearance of the lizard. Venter is white, whitish, whitish grey, with or without darker markings.

F. amax is depicted in life in Storr et al. (1981) in plate 1, photo 6, second from bottom on right and online at: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/177476229

and

F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov. is depicted in life in

and

F. grandensis is depicted in life online at: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100485324

F. instantanea is depicted in life in Wilson and Knowles (1988) on page 253 middle left and online at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nieminski/5315225943/

and https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195641586

and

F. faark sp. nov. is depicted in life online at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/smacdonald/4539877222/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimny_anders/32492490820/ and

and

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Distribution: F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov. occurs in the region of the Western section of the Top End of the Northern Territory, generally in a line west of between Darwin and the Victoria River District, with the centre of the population in the Litchfield National Park and Daly River districts.

Etymology: In early 2012, I sat at a campfire with an Aboriginal elder from the Marranunggu tribe in the bushland off the road about 2 hours drive south-west of Darwin.

It was a large corroboree with Aboriginals from all across the top end of Australia.

I asked the man about the skink we had just caught and he replied that when you put some seasoning on the dead lizard and cook it up on the hot coals of a campfire that it becomes “tasty when crispy”. Hence the etymology. The words are adjectives in apposition.

[tenth-sentence]

Jackson explained that it was Thuwathu stealing the dancing ground of somebody who had committed a law misdemeanour.

"Design: Building on Country" - Alison Page and Paul Memmott

[lifebuoyjournals]

How the moon devastated a mangrove forest 🌔

In 2015, nearly 10% of mangrove in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria died off

There was an El Nino effect at that time - tides became lower than usual. But this shouldn't cause such a drastic die-off

Researchers realised that the mangrove thinned every 18-19 years - a superregular pattern

It turns out that every 18-19 years, there's a wobble in the moon's orbit. This translates to lower tides

2015 was wobble year AND El Nino year - leading to extremely low tides that killed off a lot of mangroves

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-moon-devastated-a-mangrove-forest/

[whats-in-a-sentence]

D'arcy's massacre of fifty-nine myalls in the Gulf was reported all over Britain.

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

[trucenz]

ENTERING A NEW SEA

[mybeingthere]

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, (1924 - 2015) an amazing aboriginal artist who started painting in her 80s.

Sally Gabori was born around 1924 on Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, a small island of the Kaiadilt people. Her tribal name, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda, means ‘dolphin born at Mirdidingki’. Gabori lived her first twenty-three years according to an unbroken ancestral culture, uninfluenced by the encroachment of Europeans. Yet in 1948, following severe drought and a tidal wave that struck Bentinck Island, the Kaiadilt people were moved to the Presbyterian Mission on nearby Mornington Island. Here Gabori bore eleven children, raising them along with several others of her husband’s children to other wives, as is Kaiadilt tradition. Although she spent most of her life away from her country, Gabori maintained Kaiadilt culture, singing its songs with family and community, fishing and gathering bush foods. She remained on Mornington Island until the 1980s, when some of the Kaiadilt people began to return to their ancestral country after the Land Rights movement saw small outstations erected on Bentinck.

Gabori didn’t hold a paintbrush until she was in her eighties. She was first introduced to painting materials in 2005 while at the Mornington Island Arts and Crafts Centre. Her immediate love of paint and raw talent triggered an outpouring of artistic expression as Gabori instinctively engaged with a full spectrum of colour to visualise the glories of her country. Mixing wet paints on canvas to create tonal shifts and gestural brushstrokes, she evoked geological and ecological flux on Bentinck. Bold, hard-edged forms and sharp colour contrasts describe enduring natural structures such as ancient rock-walled fish traps, or the cliffs meeting the ocean.

[inceptionauta]

Asteroid

Rocky bodies with a diameter greater than 1 km that follow trajectories between Mars and Jupiter. Their irregular configurations suggest that they result from planetsimals that did not accrete due to gravitational disturbances, due to interference with other gravitational field.

Carbonic - dark - outer waist area;

Silico - albedo - mid-waist zone

Metal - albedo - zone

Ceres - 1000 km

Vesta - Visible

Love - Mars-Gazer

Apollo - Earth-Gazer

Hidalgo

Trojans

Astronomy Observation

photometry

spectrophotometry

polarimetry

infrared radiometry

Astrophysics

Orbit

Collision

Burckle Crater: Indico; Chevron Dunes; ocean floor fossils on the surface 

Carpentaria Gulf: microfossil; magnetic; glass

Tunguska : devastation