Leeuwin & Aussie geology

Short batch of ten questions here to celebrate my unsurprising ignorance about one of the extremities of the Australian continent.

Questions

Named for the first known ship to visit the region, what does the name ‘Leeuwin’ mean in Cape Leeuwin, the south-westernmost point of mainland Australia?

LIONESS

Cape Leeuwin is mentioned in which of Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So Stories”, with it being rhymed with ‘flew in’?

THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO

Cape Leeuwin makes up a national park with which headland that lies to its north, being named for the second ship of French cartographer Nicolas Baudin’s expedition?

CAPE NATURALISTE

Known for its jetty that is the longest wooden one in the southern hemisphere, the Western Australian town of Busselton lies on which bay that extends east from Cape Naturaliste and is named for the first ship of Nicolas Baudin’s expedition?

GEOGRAPHE BAY

What word follows Pilbara and Kaapvaal in the name of the only two pristine crusts existing from the period of 3.8 – 2.7 billion years ago?

CRATON

Separated from the Australian mainland around 10,000 years ago, a group of 95 low-lying islands known as the Aru regency makes up the easternmost part of which Indonesian province?

MALUKU

Geology shows that Australia’s continent grew from west to east. Which current eon describes the sedimentary basins in the east, with Proterozoic fold belts in the middle and Archaean cratonic shields found in the west?

PHANEROZOIC

Which island group makes up an external Australian territory with Heard Island, the total population being a huge zero? This remote territory is listed as a World Heritage Site and can be found between Madagascar and Antaractica.

MCDONALD ISLANDS

Daniel Johns is the lead singer of which Australian rock band formed in 1992? He wrote the song “Faultline” in memory of a childhood friend who was one of the unlucky 13 to die in the 1989 Newcastle earthquake.

SILVERCHAIR

What D follows Indian Ocean in the IOD acronym given to a temperature fluctuation that can have a direct effect on the climate of Australia?

DIPOLE

Australian history & geography

The RNG hit 31 that in my world means it was Australia’s turn for me to get further down the Wikipedia page. Had a nice trip through post-war history and general geography on this occasion.

Questions

Intended to discourage pejorative terms that were then in use, what two-word term was used for non-British migrants to Australia following World War II?

NEW AUSTRALIANS

As well as participating in the Korean War and Vietnam War, Australia also became involved in which conflict that ran from 1948 to 1960 and was fought between Commonwealth armed forces and the MNLA, an arm of a Communist Party?

MALAYAN EMERGENCY

The longest serving Prime Minister of Australia, whose activities during his second spell in charge from 1949 to 1966 included trying to dissolve the Australian Communist Party?

ROBERT MENZIES

Indigenous peoples were given the right to ‘native title’ when which Torres Strait Islander won a landmark case in 1992? This judgement determined that the right of ‘terra nullius’, meaning the ‘land belongs to no one’, did not exist at the time of colonisation.

EDDIE MABO

What term has been used for a set of historical policies that aimed to prevent non-ethnic Europeans from migrating to Australia, beginning with the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901? The Gough Whitlam government passed laws to disregard race as an immigration factor in 1973.

WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY

Possibly named after a people from New Guinea, what is the name of the sea that is bordered by that island in the north, Northern Territory in the south, the Timor Sea to the west and the Torres Strait to the east?

ARAFURA SEA

Known to local people as a dreamtime figure called Burringurrah, the huge inselberg of Mount Augustus that is billed as the ‘world’s largest monolith’ can be found in which Australian state? Bigger than Ayer’s Rock, it is however made of more than one rock type compared to Uluru’s sandstone monopoly.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Spelling was obviously not a strong point for which band, whose track listing for the 1984 album “Red Sails in the Sunset” misses the ‘z’ out of “Kosciuszko”, this being corrected on their 1997 compilation “20,000 Watt R.S.L.”?

MIDNIGHT OIL

Named for the leader of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition that visited Heard Island in 1929, what is the highest peak in Australia’s official territory, over 500m higher than the mainland high point of Kosciuszko?

MAWSON PEAK

Higher than Mawson Peak is which highest mountain in the claimed Australian Antarctic Territory, named for an Irish explorer who was a Royal Navy admiral and found in the Britannia range?

MOUNT MCCLINTOCK

The Blue Mountains and Snowy Mountains, both in New South Wales, can be found in which 3,500km range of mountains that extends from north of Queensland into Victoria? Alternative names are the East Australian Cordillera and Eastern Highlands.

GREAT DIVIDING RANGE

Found mainly in Queensland and the north of New South Wales, ‘Acacia harpophylla’ is commonly known by what name, with a belt of wooded grassland between the rainforest on the coast of Queensland and the state’s arid interior being named for it?

BRIGALOW

Which Scottish explorer gives the common name for grasses in the genus ‘Astrebla’, these being native only to Australia and dominant across much of the continent? With the addition of the word ‘Downs’, they provide the name of an ecoregion that can be found in parts of Queensland and Northern Territory.

THOMAS MITCHELL

Found all over Australia, with a bioregion that covers an area of Queensland and New South Wales being named for it, what is the common name of the ‘Acacia aneura’, a tree that thrives in the arid Outback regions of Australia?

MULGA

What two-word term that gives an indication of its position within the state is used for a vaguely defined area in the northernmost section of Northern Territory, with sites to visit including the stunning Kakadu National Park?

TOP END

Consisting of a narrow gap surrounded by steep-sided walls, Echidna Chasm can be found in which range that is a major feature of Purnululu National Park?

BUNGLE BUNGLES

Lying to the south of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, which sparsely populated region is known for its aboriginal population and red earth, a characteristic derived from its iron ore?

PILBARA

A potentially confusing bioregion in Northern Territory adds ‘Bonaparte’ to the name of which river? Over 500km long, it was named for a monarch who was no relation to Joseph Bonaparte and is a long way from another geographical place with the same name.

VICTORIA

An erg that contains the world’s longest parallel sand dunes, which of Australia’s large deserts covers the tri-point between Northern Territory, Queensland and South Australia?

SIMPSON DESERT

The deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion known as the Tirari-Sturt stony desert can be found mainly in which Australian state, with the Flinders Ranges and the opal-mining town of Coober Pedy also being found there?

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Named for an Australian explorer who is presumed to have died there during an 1874 expedition, which large desert in situated in the eastern part of Western Australia?

GIBSON DESERT

The Serpentine Lakes are a chain of salt lakes found on the border between Western and South Australia. They are located in which desert, that extends into both states and it not located where one might expect?

GREAT VICTORIA DESERT

Australia

A bit short on my knowledge of Aussie islands. I knew Christmas Island was in the Indian Ocean, but wasn’t even familiar with Melville Island. All this led me to an unexpected snippet about Norfolk Island.

Questions

Part of an expedition that explored the northern coast of Australia in 1623 with the ‘Pera’ captained by Jan Carstensz, Arnhem Land in Northern Territory was named for which Dutchman’s yacht?

WILLEM VAN COLSTER

Situated on the Gove peninsula and known for its bauxite refinery, what was the service hub of Arnhem Land, 600km east of Darwin?

NHULUNBUY

A reference to the number of its members, what is the security dialogue between the US, Australia, India and Japan called?

QUAD

A collaborator with Gerard Mercator, which Dutch cartographer has some rings named after him that are an early astronomical instrument?

GEMMA FRISIUS (Gemma’s rings)

‘The sunburnt country’ and the ‘Side brown land’ are colloquial names for Australia first found in whose 1908 poem “My Country”?

DOROTHEA MACKELLAR

With no copies thought to exist today, which film saw actress Annette Kellerman become the first nude actor in Hollywood?

A DAUGHTER OF THE GODS

What is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia? Rock art here is some of the oldest in Australia and could date back 40,000 years.

KIMBERLEY

Surrounded by Unesco listed Kakadu National Park, which rock shelter in Arnhem Land is said to be the site of the oldest evidence of human habitation in Australia?

MADJEDBEBE

What are the oldest human remains found in Australia? They were discovered in the Unesco listed Willandra Lakes region in New South Wales.

LAKE MUNGO REMAINS

Which repetitive supernatural being similar to the rainbow serpent gave its rib to the humans to use as a boomerang? They also created flying foxes, or bats, for humans to capture and eat.

BOBBI-BOBBI

Built between 1919 and 1932, the Great Ocean Road is perhaps surprisingly considered to be the world’s largest what?

WAR MEMORIAL

Born in the Spanish Netherlands, who became the first known European to sight the coast of Australia during his voyage of 1605 to 1606?

WILLEM JANSZOON

Meaning ‘little dove’, on which ship was Willem Janszoon when he became the first known European to sight the coast of Australia during his 1605 to 1606 voyage?

DUYFKEN

The penal colony set up in 1788 by Arthur Philip at Sydney Cove was in which port, named by James Cook for one of the Lords Commissioners of the British Admiralty?

PORT JACKSON

A ‘subversive adult Disneyland’, which Hobart museum is the largest privately funded museum in the Southern hemisphere? It is located within the Moorilla winery.

MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART / MONA

In 1813 what did Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth cross to the west of Sydney that opened the interior to European settlement?

BLUE MOUNTAINS

The British claim extended to the whole continent in 1827 when Major Edmund Lockyer established a settlement at which Western Australian site, known in the modern day as Albany?

KING GEORGE SOUND

What two-word term is used for the result of the policies introduced by colonial governments from 1886 that removed many Aboriginal children from their families and communities?

STOLEN GENERATIONS

Which member of the Heidelberg school, also known as Australian impressionism, painted “The Big Picture”, the most famous visual representation of Australia’s first parliament?

TOM ROBERTS

There were twelve of these held between 1887 and 1937, all but one in London. At which 1907 conference was Australia and several other self-governing British settler colonies given dominion status?

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Annexed by Queensland in 1883, Australia became the colonial ruler of which territory in 1902 that made up part of a country that became independent in 1975?

PAPUA

Her endorsements including the female-targeted Qwiksilver brand Roxy, who won gold for Australia in the 2010 women’s snowboarding half pipe? She also won silver in 2014 making her Australia’s most successful female Winter Olympian.

TORAH BRIGHT

Later being a judge on Australia’s version of “Dancing on Ice”, who won Australia’s first female gold at the Winter Olympics in 2002’s freestyle skiing aerials, following it up with a bronze in 2006?

ALISA CAMPLIN

Which male with a double-barreled surname won gold in the 2006 freestyle skiing men’s moguls, following it up with a silver in 2010 to make him Australia’s most successful male Winter Olympian? His advertising business courted controversy when it was linked to the distribution of malware.

DALE BEGG-SMITH

Married to a Finnish skier who competed in the moguls in 1998, who won gold in the 2010 women’s aerials, also winning bronze in 2014? She has had a go at the Australian versions of “Ninja Warrior” and “Survivor” since then.

LYDIA LASSILA

Born in Cairns and claiming to be an early riser who sometimes has two breakfasts, who won 2022 gold in the women’s freestyle skiing, banishing the memories of 4th place from 2018?

JAKARA ANTHONY

Used as a term in Australian English for a ‘fool’, the term ‘drongo’ comes not from the bird but from what other thing?

A RACEHORSE (It never won)

Surrounded by rough seas, which ‘Pyramid’ that is part of Lord Howe Island is the tallest volcanic stack in the world? It is named for the commander of HMS Supply which gave the first reported sighting in 1788.

BALL’S PYRAMID

Including Sugarloaf and Roach Island, which group of seven small uninhabited islands lies to the north of Lord Howe Island?

ADMIRALTY GROUP

Just outside the top 100 islands in size and the second largest in Australia after Tasmania, Melville Island is part of which island group that lies off the coast of Northern Territory?

TIWI ISLANDS

Depicted as Mission Island in Baz Luhrmann’s 2008 film “Australia”, what is the second largest of the Tiwi Islands after Melville Island, taking its name from a former British Secretary of State for the Colonies with the name being chosen by the second in command of the HMS Beagle expedition?

BATHURST ISLAND

The site of the Montara oil spill in 2009, the worst such disaster for 25 years, in which sea can the Tiwi Islands off the coast of Northern Territory be found?

TIMOR SEA

Located in the South Pacific Ocean and closer to New Zealand that its Australian parent, Norfolk Island has what settlement as its capital, actually part of a World Heritage Site?

KINGSTON

Along with Kingston, what two-word name makes up the Norfolk Island World Heritage Site that consists of a group of buildings from Britain’s convict era?

ARTHUR’S VALE