Groote Eylandt (Dutch, 'great island'), an uninhabited island on the west side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, in North Australia. It is surrounded by reefs, and its interior is hilly. In extreme length and breadth it measures about 40 miles each way.
Groote Eylandt
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 429
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