Van Diemen Gulf

Van Diemen Gulf
Map showing the layout of Van Diemen Gulf. Darwin is in lower left corner.
Van Diemen Gulf
Coordinates	11°49′S 131°57′E / 11.817°S 131.950°E / -11.817; 131.950
Type	Gulf
Etymology	Anthony van Diemen.^[1]
Basin countries	Australia

Max. length	75 nautical miles (139 km; 86 mi) ^[2]
Max. width	45 nautical miles (83 km; 52 mi) ^[2]

Van Diemen Gulf is a gulf in the Northern Territory of Australia. It connects to the Timor Sea in the north via Dundas Strait. Most of its area is also gazetted as a locality with the name Van Diemen Gulf.

History

The gulf was named after the Dutch colonial governor, Anthony van Diemen (1593–1645).^[3]

Phillip Parker King and his crew in the 76-tonne cutter HMS Mermaid surveyed the coastline in early 1818, encountering local Aboriginal people and proas sailed by Makassans, and passed by the Gulf on other voyages.^[4]

Geography

The gulf connects to the Timor Sea in the north via Dundas Strait, and is also connected to the Beagle Gulf in the west by the Clarence Strait. It is partially enclosed by Melville Island and the Cobourg Peninsula, and measures about 140 kilometres (90 mi) by 80 kilometres (50 mi).^[5]

Rivers draining into the Gulf include the South Alligator River, the East Alligator River, the Mary River, Wildman River and the Adelaide River. The Kakadu National Park adjoins its south-east coast.^[6]

Administrative status

On 4 April 2007, most of the area occupied by the Van Diemen Gulf was gazetted as a locality with the name Van Diemen Gulf by the Northern Territory Government, who also included it in the local government area of the West Arnhem Region.^[7]^[8]^[9]

References

^ "Place Names Register Extract - "Van Diemen Gulf"". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
^ ^a ^b Sailing Directions (Enroute), Pub. 175: North, West, and South Coasts of Australia (PDF). Sailing Directions. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2017. p. 27.
^ "Diemen, Anthony van" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
^ "King, Phillip Parker (1791–1856)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 2. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. 1967. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 6 November 2020. This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, (MUP), 1967 [but has been] amended since the original publication.
^ "Van Diemen Gulf". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
^ "Drainage Divisions" (PDF). Commonwealth of Australia. 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
^ "Place Names Register Extract - "Van Diemen Gulf" (locality)". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
^ "Extent of the locality of "Van Diemen Gulf"". NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
^ "Localities within West Arnhem Shire (sic)" (PDF). Place Names Committee. Northern Territory Government. 2 April 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2019.

v t e Australian places named by Dutch navigators, explorers and cartographers in the Age of Discovery¹
Australian continent / Australian mainland	Eendrachtsland Nova Hollandia / Nieuw Holland
Queensland	Coen River Staaten River (Staten Rivier) Gulf of Carpentaria Sweers Island
Northern Territory	Vanderlin Island (Cap Vanderlin) Groote Eylandt Arnhem Land (Arnhems Landt) Crocodile Islands (Cocodrils Eÿlandt) Van Diemen Gulf (Baÿa Van Diemen) Wessel Islands
Western Australia	Cape Leeuwin (Landt van de Leeuwin) Dirk Hartog Island Nuyts Land District (Land van Pieter Nuyts) Houtman Abrolhos² Pelsaert Group Pelsaert Island Rottnest Island ('t Eylandt 't Rottenest) Swan River (Swarte Swaene-Rivier)
South Australia	Nuyts Archipelago St Francis Island (Eyland St. Francois) St Peter Island (Eyland St. Pierre)
Tasmania	Van Diemen's Land / Anthonie van Diemenslandt (mainland Tasmania) De Witt Island Maatsuyker Island (Maetsuickers Eylandt) Pedra Branca² Storm Bay Maria Island (Maria's Eylandt) Schouten Island (Schoute Eylandt)
Related topics	European maritime exploration of Australia European land exploration of Australia Dutch mapping of Australasia Dutch mapping of the Australian continent Dutch mapping of the Australian mainland Dutch mapping of Nova Hollandia Dutch mapping of Tasmania Early modern Netherlandish cartography
Notes: ¹with the name still in use in either original or Anglicised version ²Named by the Dutch, but a Portuguese name Many names have been Anglicised; for these the original Dutch name appears in brackets

v t e List of Australian seas
Ocean	Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean Southern Ocean
Sea	Arafura Sea Coral Sea Tasman Sea Timor Sea
Strait	Backstairs Passage Bass Strait Clarence Strait Dundas Strait Endeavour Strait Investigator Strait Torres Strait
Gulf	Admiralty Gulf Beagle Gulf Cambridge Gulf Gulf of Carpentaria Great Australian Bight Exmouth Gulf Joseph Bonaparte Gulf Gulf St Vincent Spencer Gulf Van Diemen Gulf
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