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Weipa, the Glossary

Weipa is a coastal mining town in the local government area of Weipa Town in Queensland.^[1]

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Bauxite mines in Australia
Coastal towns in Queensland
Mining towns in Queensland
Ports and harbours of Queensland
Weipa Town

Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.

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Aboriginal reserve

An Aboriginal reserve, also called simply reserve, was a government-sanctioned settlement for Aboriginal Australians, created under various state and federal legislation.

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Aboriginal Shire of Napranum

The Aboriginal Shire of Napranum is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Anguthimri (Jupangati, Angadimi) is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Anguthimri people who lived in the area from the mouth of the Mission River north to Pennefather River and west to Duyfken Point.

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Australian Aboriginal languages

The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intelligible varieties) up to possibly 363.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Australian Railway History

Australian Railway History is a monthly magazine covering railway history in Australia, published by the New South Wales Division of the Australian Railway Historical Society on behalf of its state and territory Divisions.

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Awngthim language

Awngthim is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in Cape York in Queensland, Australia by the Winduwinda people.

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Bauxite

Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.

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Brisbane

Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.

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Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or BoM) is an executive agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas.

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Cairns

Cairns (Gimuy) is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland.

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Camberwell, Victoria

Camberwell is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara local government area.

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Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is a peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Centrelink

The Centrelink Master Program, or more commonly known as Centrelink, is a Services Australia master program of the Australian Government.

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Cooktown, Queensland

Cooktown is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. Weipa and Cooktown, Queensland are coastal towns in Queensland, Populated places in Far North Queensland and towns in Queensland.

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Cyclone Oswald

Tropical Cyclone Oswald in 2013 was a tropical cyclone that passed over parts of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia over a number of days, causing widespread impact including severe storms, flooding, and water spouts.

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Deed of Grant in Trust

A Deed of Grant in Trust (DOGIT) is the name for a system of community-level land trust established in Queensland to administer former Aboriginal reserves and missions.

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Division of Leichhardt

The Division of Leichhardt is an Australian electoral division in Queensland.

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Dry season

The dry season was a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.

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Duyfken

Duyfken (Little Dove), also in the form Duifje or spelled Duifken or Duijfken, was a small ship built in the Dutch Republic.

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Duyfken Point

Duyfken Point is a point in the locality of Mission River, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia.

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Electoral district of Cook

Cook is an electoral district in Queensland, Australia.

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Evans Landing, Queensland

Evans Landing is a rural locality in the Weipa Town, Queensland, Australia. Weipa and Evans Landing, Queensland are Weipa Town.

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Fee simple

In English law, a fee simple or fee simple absolute is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership.

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Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a sea off the northern coast of Australia.

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Harry Evans (geologist)

Henry James Evans (7 November 1912 – 9 November 1990) was the leading exploration geologist and discoverer of the immense bauxite deposits near Weipa, on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kindergarten

Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school.

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Macquarie Dictionary

The Macquarie Dictionary is a dictionary of Australian English.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Mapoon, Queensland

Mapoon is a coastal town in the Aboriginal Shire of Mapoon and a locality split between the Aboriginal Shire of Mapoon and the Shire of Cook in Queensland, Australia. Weipa and Mapoon, Queensland are Populated places in Far North Queensland and towns in Queensland.

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Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland.

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Mission River, Queensland

Mission River is a coastal rural locality split between the Shire of Cook and the Aboriginal Shire of Napranum in Queensland, Australia.

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Mount Isa

Mount Isa is a city in the Gulf Country region of Queensland, Australia. Weipa and Mount Isa are mining towns in Queensland and towns in Queensland.

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Nanum, Queensland

Nanum is a coastal residential locality in Weipa Town, Far North Queensland, Australia. Weipa and Nanum, Queensland are Weipa Town.

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Napranum, Queensland

Napranum is a remote town in the locality of Mission River in the Aboriginal Shire of Napranum, Queensland, Australia. Weipa and Napranum, Queensland are Populated places in Far North Queensland and towns in Queensland.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.

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Protector of Aborigines

The Australian colonies and in the nineteenth century created offices involved in dealing with indigenous people in the jurisdictions.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Queensland Government

The Queensland Government is the state government of Queensland, Australia, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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RAAF Base Scherger

RAAF Base Scherger (ICAO: YBSG) is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military air base located approximately east of Weipa on the western side of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. Weipa and RAAF Base Scherger are Weipa Town.

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Rio Tinto (corporation)

Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian multinational company that is the world's second largest metals and mining corporation (behind BHP).

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Rio Tinto Aluminium

Rio Tinto Aluminium (previously known as Comalco) is now known as Rio Tinto Alcan after Rio's takeover of Alcan.

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Rocky Point, Queensland (Weipa Town)

Rocky Point is a residential locality in the Weipa Town, Queensland, Australia. Weipa and Rocky Point, Queensland (Weipa Town) are Weipa Town.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns is located in the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Shire of Cook

The Shire of Cook (The Shire) is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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State Library of Queensland

The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library provided to the people of the State of Queensland, Australia, by the state government.

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Thunderstorm

A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.

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Time in Australia

Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30) and Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00).

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories Aw (for a dry "winter") and As (for a dry "summer").

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Trunding

Trunding is a coastal residential locality in the Weipa Town, Queensland, Australia. Weipa and Trunding are Weipa Town.

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Tungsten

Tungsten (also called wolfram) is a chemical element; it has symbol W and atomic number 74.

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Weipa

Weipa is a coastal mining town in the local government area of Weipa Town in Queensland. Weipa and Weipa are 1898 establishments in Australia, bauxite mines in Australia, coastal towns in Queensland, Gulf of Carpentaria, mining towns in Queensland, Populated places established in 1898, Populated places in Far North Queensland, Ports and harbours of Queensland, towns in Queensland and Weipa Town.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weipa

Also known as Weipa Mission, Weipa, Queensland, Western Cape College.

, State Library of Queensland, Thunderstorm, Time in Australia, Tropical cyclone, Tropical savanna climate, Trunding, Tungsten, Weipa, Weipa Airport, Weipa Airport, Queensland, Weipa bauxite mine, Weipa Town, Wet season, Willem Janszoon.

Weipa, the Glossary

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See also

Bauxite mines in Australia

Coastal towns in Queensland

Mining towns in Queensland

Ports and harbours of Queensland

Weipa Town

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