Qualla: Gulf of Carpentaria https://qualla.com/gulf-of-carpentaria en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/d/c/gulf-of-carpentaria-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Gulf of Carpentaria https://qualla.com/gulf-of-carpentaria Gulf of Carpentaria: Introduction https://qualla.com/gulf-of-carpentaria/ Photo credit Public domain. On certain mornings in late September, just after dawn near the tiny Queensland town of Burketown, a wall of cloud appears on the horizon and keeps coming. It is a single tube of vapour, smooth as a rolled blanket, tumbling forward over itself, and it can stretch a thousand kilometres from end to end. This is the Morning Glory, one of the rarest reliable weather phenomena on the planet, and it belongs to the Gulf of Carpentaria, a shallow inland sea scooped out of the top of Australia and cradled between Arnhem Land and Cape York.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/d/c/gulf-of-carpentaria-wp/rjdc-gulf-of-carpentaria-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Gulf of Carpentaria: The Scale of the Water https://qualla.com/gulf-of-carpentaria/ Photo credit Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC, Public domain. The Gulf is enormous and strangely flat. At its mouth it spans 590 kilometres, widening to 675 further south, and it runs more than 700 kilometres from north to south, covering roughly 300,000 square kilometres of sea. Yet it is barely a puddle by ocean standards: most of it is o...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/d/c/gulf-of-carpentaria-wp/rjdc-gulf-of-carpentaria-the-scale-of-the-water.mp3 0:06 2 full Gulf of Carpentaria: The Cloud That Surfers Chase https://qualla.com/gulf-of-carpentaria/ Photo credit NormanEinstein, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Morning Glory forms when sea breezes blowing off the Gulf and the Coral Sea collide over Cape York. As night air cools and collapses, it sends a solitary wave rolling across the Gulf, made visible as that astonishing cylinder of cloud, one to two kilometres high and travellin...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/d/c/gulf-of-carpentaria-wp/rjdc-gulf-of-carpentaria-the-cloud-that-surfers-chase.mp3 0:06 3 full Gulf of Carpentaria: Old Names, Old Waters https://qualla.com/gulf-of-carpentaria/ Photo credit J Brew, CC BY-SA 2.0. Long before any of this had a European name, the Gulf and its country were home to peoples whose languages still map the land. Yulluna, also written Yalarnga, belongs to the Cloncurry region; Kayardild is the tongue of Bentinck Island and the Wellesley group. The European chapter...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/d/c/gulf-of-carpentaria-wp/rjdc-gulf-of-carpentaria-old-names-old-waters.mp3 0:06 4 full Gulf of Carpentaria: A Working Sea https://qualla.com/gulf-of-carpentaria/ Photo credit Carole Mackinney, FAL. For all its emptiness, the Gulf is one of Australia's great working waters. Its real treasure swims unseen: the prawns. The Northern Prawn Fishery, one of the country's most valuable, depends on the Gulf, which supplies on average around 65 percent of its banana prawn catch and t...

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