Beagle Gulf

Coordinates: 12°09′37″S 130°29′23″E / 12.16028°S 130.48972°E / -12.16028; 130.48972
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Beagle Gulf
Beagle Gulf is located in Northern Territory
Beagle Gulf
Beagle Gulf
Coordinates12°09′37″S 130°29′23″E / 12.16028°S 130.48972°E / -12.16028; 130.48972
TypeGulf
EtymologyHMS Beagle
Basin countriesAustralia

Beagle Gulf is a

Bynoe. It is approximately 100 km long and 50 km wide.[1] It surrounds the Quail Island Group
.

Name

HMS Beagle

Beagle Gulf was named after the ship

Cocos-Keeling Islands, at the south coast of Java, and from there to Cape Town and back to England. They stayed away from Beagle Gulf by 3000 sea miles and did not know of its existence.[2] The gulf was actually named by Captain John Clements Wickham
, commanding HMS Beagle during its survey of northern Australia in 1837-1838, at the beginning of her third and last long voyage.

Protection

In 1991 the Northern Territory Government proposed the formation of the Beagle Gulf Marine Park. The proposed Marine Park has a significant commercial, recreational conservation value. Zoning plans enable the broadest possible use of marine parks whilst providing for the protection and conservation of significant ecological, scientific, historical, cultural and scenic sites.[3]

Administrative status

On 4 April 2007, most of the area occupied by the Beagle Gulf was gazetted by the Northern Territory Government as a locality with the name, Beagle Gulf. The locality has not been added to any existing local government area and is considered to be part of the Northern Territory's unincorporated areas.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ^ Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places.
  2. ISSN 1034-7488
    . Cited on 29 Oct 2012.
  3. ^ N Smit, R Billyard and L Ferns: Beagle Gulf Benthic Survey: Characterisation of soft substrates. Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine Technical Report No. 66 (2000), Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory.
  4. ^ "Place Names Register Extract - "Beagle Gulf"". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Beagle Gulf". NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Dundee Un-incorporated area - west of Litchfield and Palmerston Municipality". Place Names Committee. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
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