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MORNINGTON ISLE

Volume 15 · 64 words · 1842 Edition

one of the group of islands which Captain Flinders calls Wellesley's Islands. It is situated on the north coast of New Holland, at the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is thirty-five miles long and ninety in circumference; and is inhabited, though nothing is known of the natives. Long. of Cape Van Diemen, its eastern point, 139° 49'. E. Lat. 16° 32' S.