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| Spectacular,
rare, and awesomely powerful, the Morning Glory of the Gulf of Carpentaria
in Northern Australia is a magnet for growing numbers of soaring pilots
and scientists. Unique in all the world and shrouded in mystery,
the Morning Glory arrives regularly each spring. |
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Dynamic waves of this
type occur unheralded everywhere and at all altitudes, and are the possible
cause of much of the clear air turbulence which so disrupts commercial
air travel. Those waves, however, are usually invisible, infrequent and
currently all but unpredictable.
Morning Glory waves sometimes
exceed 1000 km in length and 10,000 feet in height. These enormous waves
are believed to contain the energy equivalent of several nuclear devices. |
A Guide to Morning Glory Clouds
and the Gulf of Carpentaria
Herein you'll find a collection of articles about
soaring the Morning Glory, some technical and some decidedly not. There
is a modest collection of images of the wave cloud, including a quite amazing
satellite picture. There are several articles on Burketown and the Gulf
of Carpentaria, including historical pieces on Sweers Island and the Investigator
Tree, and there is quite a lot of information about Far North Queensland
in general. There are pages on various Gulf locations including Undara
Lava Tubes and Lawn Hill Gorge, fauna and flora information, and of course
the site wouldn't be complete without a page or two on the ubiquitous canetoad. |
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