Gulf islands a long way from paradise

By Sally Cripps
Updated August 21 2015 - 2:33pm, first published June 15 2015 - 3:00am
Traditional dancers entertain the ministerial delegation when it visited Mornington Island.
Traditional dancers entertain the ministerial delegation when it visited Mornington Island.

MORE than two centuries ago, Commander Matthew Flinders came across a pristine group of islands at the bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria, about 125km north of Burketown, naming them after Richard Wellesley, who was known as the Earl of Mornington.

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