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Bathurst Island

Bathurst Island, c.1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km), Northern Territory, N Australia, near Melville Island, between the Timor and Arafura seas. The island is a reservation owned by the Tiwi people.

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Description and paleobiogeographic significance of a rare Cenomanian molluscan faunule from Bathurst Island, Northern Australia (Journal of Paleontology)

Understanding hector: The dynamics of island thunderstorms (Monthly Weather Review)

Boundary layer development over a tropical island during the maritime continent thunderstorm experiment (Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences)

Tiwi Islands adventure: chasing Asiatic water buffalo in paradise. (Petersen's Bowhunting)

Tropical Island convection in the absence of significant topography, part II: Nowcasting storm evolution (Monthly Weather Review)

A Death in the Tiwi Islands: Conflict, Ritual and Social Life in an Australian Aboriginal Community. (The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology)

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The British Garrison in Australia 1788-1841 military supervision of convict work gangs--Part V. (Sabretache)

Demographic transition in a hunter-gatherer population: the Tiwi case, 1929-1996. (Australian Aboriginal Studies)

Appendix IV: COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUES ERECTED BY THE RAHS. (Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society)

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