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Southern Ocean Coral Sea I N D I a N O C E 115OW 120OW 125OW 130OW 135OW 140OW 145OW 150OW Gulf of SOLOMON T o Papua PAPUA NEW GUINEA INDONESIA r r e s S t r a i t SEA TIMOR PORT MORESBY Badu I. Moa I. d'Entrecasteaux G Islands SEA Prince of Wales I. Cape York D u O Melville n Bamaga d Cape Wessel 10 S a Croker Island r Cape Van Diemen Island s O S t r 10 S a Wessel Islands e i t Goulburn Islands Bathurst Island Louisiade Cape Wilberforce a Van Diemen Cape Grenville Archipelago Gulf Cape Arnhem Cape t Darwin Duifken Point Ashmore and Cape Weymouth Jabiru Weipa Cartier Islands York Cape Direction Point Blaze Cape Grey Pera Head B Peninsula Iron Range Cape Shield a Anson Bay Arnhem Cape Scott r e Land INDIAN in Cape Londonderry r Pine Creek e Groote Eylandt h r t Gulf of Joseph D Princess Osprey Reef Seringapatam Reef a a Long Reef ly K Cape Beatrice Charlotte C. Melville Bonaparte Bay i CORAL e Katherine Scott Reef rt o e a g Gulf Limmen Carpentaria p la a e Bight r n ip o h Cape Flattery B c SEA r A Sir Edward Pellew R M O Champagny i 15 S tc Group h Cooktown Islands Wyndham e e l e Kununurra l sdal Hall Point ry D Borroloola OCEAN e O Daly Waters C. Tribulation 15 S Wellesley Buccaneer Archipelago Collier f Bay Islands Willis Group k Lake Cape Lévêque c Holmes Reef a Magdelaine Cays Gibb River r Argyle Cairns u D Mareeba Cape Grafton Flora Reef ia Pender Bay r King o t Herald Cays CORAL SEA Lacepede Islands Sound i c Kimberley V Newcastle G Coringa Is. Cape Baskerville 1612 Waters B F Normanton Innisfail ISLANDS TERRITORY Derby rd Burketown li Mermaid Reef O a n Flinders Reefs Diamond Is. s d Tully r l r e Lihou Reef Clerke Reef k rs Croydon Tregosse Islets a Cape Boileau e and Cays o Plateau ly and Reefs h a S Gantheaume Point Broome Halls Creek T G Hinchinbrook Imperieuse Reef Fitzroy Crossing a r y Roebuck Bay ek e Ingham Island t le re b g Forsayth C w rt l o o tu e B R Cape Latouche Treville S l r a y Greenvale a Tanami n R Halifax Bay Cape Bossut d a r n r Desert Townsville Tennant Creek g i h e G Marion c Ayr e a Reef e B Tanami r ile Charters Towers M r ty Whitsunday R igh Gregory Lake Bowen O Cape Keraudren E Group 20 S G Cloncurry e e e NORTHERN o Mount Isa rg e i na Hughenden Dampier Port Hedland Lake White S a f O e 20 S Archipelago Great Sandy Desert lw 1277 y Mt Dalrymple Montebello Islands O n t a Lake Willis R Mackay Frederick k a. Karratha Roebourne o v Swain Reef Barrow Island e Ken r TERRITORY Northumberland Isles Reefs Reef Fo Winton D rtescue Lake Mackay Saumarez Reef Onslow Ch Boulia h ich i Wreck t est Ca North West Cape u er pri o f H R co Reef l ame an M rn Exmouth u r g C m sle e QUEENSLANDv han x y 1524 ne G R a TROPIC OF CAPRICO a l E 1235 a Mt Liebig Alice Springs RN tin Longreach n Lake Macdonald c n Barcaldine Capricorn g d a Rockhampton e o m a Group Lake Disappointment n i i n D ek TROPIC OF CAPRICORN Cato Island Newman e re Curtis I. ll s C and Bank R a n g e per Paraburdoo Coo d Gladstone Lake Hopkins Lake Neale Blackall A sh b u P i rton et Lake Amadeus erm TROPIC OF CAPRICORN Gibson Desert a Yaraka n Lake n Buckland Sandy Cape n R Yulara Simpson Hervey 1106 a Macleod n Bilpa Morea Bay Cape Cuvier Mt Augustus g Desert Tableland Fraser I. O e Claypan g 867 Bundaberg 25 S oyne Ayers Rock Hervey Bay Gasc Uluru Birdsville Carnarvon Maryborough Bernier Island M M Ranges Warburton u a son s c O in g ob Lake Carnegie ra 1440 Mt Woodroffe u R Double Island Point R m 25 S Dorre Island Shark ve R Charleville an b Quilpie Gympie g a a Bay es Sturt Roma n Alberga Dirk Hartog Island WESTERN Lake Wells Stony g Tewantin Denham e Nambour Meekatharra Desert Maroochydore n n n o Bongaree Steep Point o o s s rt l i u i e Caboolture h rb c W Moreton Island r a k g o u Great Victoria W e g M re n e C r Beardmore r a r onie e a Mo Toowoomba p R Cunnamula Res. Brisbane o W y W Ipswich AUSTRALIA o e C e a r n Lake Eyre r n r G lloo lo S y Bu a Warwick Desert W B tu -North- Gold Coast a Weir r Kalbarri Mount Magnet a Lake Gregory r y D r um e Bluff Point t Coober Peddy a Laverton Bulloo re G R Lake Blanche sq e Lismore e Leonora a Lake l v Lake Carey n Lake Eyre n Ballina i o M n Ullewa g oo C k -South- r w a Lake Maurice l e Maree a g r c a C Lake Callabonna P Narran Lake a Moree in B r Houtman h t a y e Geraldton r n Barwon e n Abrolhos n Lake Ballard L ce e Lake Barlee e Walgett i g TASMAN l h Bourque n Grafton N amoi SOUTH AUSTRALIA Leigh Creek Lake Frome O Lake Moore 1615 30 S Tarcoola s Round Mt Coffs Harbour Lake C a a Armidale e s g t in l Lake Harris Torrens rl e a r M n g a i e l a D c M k P a O r Woomera le o g Kalgoorlie b a SEA r n h 30 S l a Lake Wilcania c R u l q Boulder 1188 u N a Lake Everard a r Gairdner Poopelloe Lake i Eucla e Ha Penong R sti n Port Macquarie e Broken Hill Lake Bo Ceduna ga Madura n Merredin Macfarlane s 1585 g Lake Cowan Menindee Lake Taree r Mt Barrington Red Rock Point Nuyts Port Augusta Dubbo Northam Archipelago e g Wanneroo n Norseman Tandou Lake Muswellbrook Forster-Tuncurry d Burrendong Balladonia Point Dover NEW SOUTH WALES a Res. Singleton Perth n Streaky Bay Whyalla Mindona Lake Kwinana i Popilta Lake Willandra Billabo n l n B R Point Culver g Rockingham Port Pirie Travellers e l Parkes l T F Newcastle Lake u Mandurah r o ng n Great f li Garnpung Lake L i Wyong Investigator l r a g a Melbourne D L. Cowal ch Bathurst Bairnsdale l Group u Lake Victoria a Sale rra n Geelong G u Frankston n Australian Bight y G a Morwell e l M Penrith og Esperance Mildura B B ra i Cape Pasley r u la a Bunbury s n d y p e Griffith d h l Sydney Cape Arid n Murrum e c i b Campbelltown Cape Naturaliste n n Gawler idg Cape Otway r ee Port Lincoln e e Busselton d P oo p Adelaide i Wollongong Wilson's a Hood Point Cape Carnot ck w Archipelago of S e Crafers Moulam Goulburn Kiama Promontory la Manjimup Yor k Gulf ein B the Recherche Cape Catastrophe Murray Bridge C B Augusta Cheyne Bay St Vicent r. Nowra a s D M s t Lake Tyrell Wagga Wagga L. George King S t r a i Cape Leeuwin r Strait ur tigato r v O North Inves ay 40 S Island Albany n Point CANBERRA e Furneaux Point d'Entrecasteaux a v Bald Head n a c o h o l v d Group i a d Albury Mur Hunter r o A o a L y h Kangaroo Echuca S Islands O Shepparton Wodonga 35 S Cape Grim Ban ks S Island Wangaratta tra D2230 it Burnie Horsham VICTORIA Mount Eddystone Cape Jaffa Kosciuszko Tasmania Devonport Point Rocklands Res. y w Launceston o O G t n SOUTHERN OCEAN L. George S 110 W 1617 Ballarat r e a Mount L. Bonney l a n d Ossa Mount Gambier Melbourne p s Cape Howe Geelong Port i p L. Corangamite Philllip Bairnsdale Rame Head Discovery Bay G Sale TASMANIA Portland Colac Bay Morwell Maria Cape Nelson Warrnambool Frankston Hobart Island Cape Otway TASMAN SEA Wilson's South West Cape TASMAN O O O O O O O O 115 W 120 W 125 W 130 W 135 W 140 W 145 W Promontory 150 W 145OW Southeast Cape SEA.
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