Australia getting in on the large conventional explosives test. Operation Blowdown was an explosives test carried out in the Iron Range jungle of Australia's Cape York Peninsula in 1963, to simulate the effects of a nuclear weapon on tropical rainforest.
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Lucille is a Black Palm #Cockatoo black parrot of the cockatoo family native to New Guinea, Aru Islands, and Cape York Peninsula. It has a very large black beak and prominent red cheek patches.
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our drive from Brisbane to Cape York peninsula tip we did a few years ago with a Mitsubishi Triton
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TDIH: July 29, 1914 Transcontinental telephone service in the U.S. became operational with the first test conversation between New York and San Francisco. Massachusettsβ Cape Cod Canal, offering a shortcut across the base of the peninsula, was officially opened to shipping traffic.
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TIL that New York's Long Island and Fire Island, Massachusetts's peninsula of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, the Elizabeth Islands, and Nantucket, and Rhode Island's Block Island, as well as surrounding islands and islets, are collectively referred to by geographers as "The Outer Lands."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outβ¦
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Quiet walk on the beach, Cape Flattery on the Olympic Peninsula, Clallam County, Washington.
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Three new vertebrate species, isolated for millions of years, have been discovered on Australiaβs Cape York Peninsula
www-public.jcu.edu.au/newβ¦
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Map of India Orientalis Nova from 1686.Early map of the southeast Asia extending from India to Australia, with the Dutch discoveries made on the western side of Cape York Peninsula.
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13 new spider species discovered in Australia - A team of scientists, teachers & Indigenous rangers find new arachnids during survey of the Cape York peninsula in Queenslandβs far north
theguardian.com/environmeβ¦
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Forest cover map of the Cape York Peninsula
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Severe Tropical Cyclone #Trevor made landfall on Australia's Cape York Peninsula on Tuesday and is expected to plow westward into the Gulf of Carpentaria, threatening parts of the Northern Territory later this week: https://t.co/sEs7leVg1u https://t.co/dKoXCCuPEK
mobile.twitter.com/breakiβ¦
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Forest cover map of the Cape York Peninsula
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Quiet walk on the beach, Cape Flattery on the Olympic Peninsula, Clallam County, Washington.
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Map of Cape York Peninsula
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Lost world discovered on Australiaβs Cape York Peninsula: Three vertebrate species new to science and isolated for millions of yearsβa bizarre looking leaf-tail gecko, a golden-coloured skink and a boulder-dwelling frog.
www-public.jcu.edu.au/newβ¦
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I know this is very random, but I was browsing Google earth like usual and I noticed that Nova Scotia and New Zealand have vaguely similar shapes. Even though Nova Scotia isn't an island, it is a peninsula, and Cape Breton is like its North Island. Thoughts?
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