CAPE YORK PENINSULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape York Peninsula mean? 

• CAPE YORK PENINSULA (noun)
  The noun CAPE YORK PENINSULA has 1 sense:

1. a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea

  Familiarity information: CAPE YORK PENINSULA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPE YORK PENINSULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Cape York Peninsula"):

Cape York (the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland)

Holonyms ("Cape York Peninsula" is a part of...):

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)

Queensland (a state in northeastern Australia)

Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)