Definition of Moreton bay

1. Noun. An arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay to the east of Brisbane.

Group relationships: Queensland, Australia
Generic synonyms: Bay, Embayment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moreton Bay

Mordovian
Mordovians
Mordred
Mordva
Mordvin
Mordvinia
Mordvinian
Mordvinians
More
Morecambe
Morel's ear
Morelia spilotes variegatus
Morelos
Morerastrongylus costaricensis
Moresque
Moreton Bay
Moreton Bay bug
Moreton Bay chestnut
Moreton Bay pine
Moreton Bay tulipwood
Morgagni's appendix
Morgagni's cartilage
Morgagni's cataract
Morgagni's columns
Morgagni's concha
Morgagni's crypts
Morgagni's disease
Morgagni's foramen

Literary usage of Moreton bay

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1863)
"THE Nautical Magazine, of London, gives the following official notice to mariners, respecting the south entrance to moreton bay,by Lieutenant GP HEATH, RN, ..."

2. A History of the Australasian Colonies: (from Their Foundation in the Year 1893) by Edward Jenks (1896)
"All this was before the discovery of gold. 3. Queensland. (moreton bay District^) The expedition of Surveyor Oxley along the coast north of Sydney ..."

3. Cooksland in North-eastern Australia: The Future Cottonfield of Great by John Dunmore Lang (1847)
"ALTHOUGH I had had much epistolary communication with persons residing in the district of moreton bay, for many years previous, I had never visited that ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The coast which extends for some 2250 miles, is indented with numerous inlets, bays and harbors, some of the chief being moreton bay, ..."

5. The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1846)
"1 have myself always been most anxious to attempt to cross from moreton bay on the north-east coast to Port Essington on the north-west. ..."

6. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1881)
"A few remarks on moreton bay may be of interest. It was on the 17th of May, 1770, the celebrated circumnavigator, Captain James Cook, dropped anchor from ..."

7. A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies by James Backhouse (1843)
"Amusements.—Huts.—Native Dogs.—Fish.— Manufacture.—Mangroves, &c.—Animals.—Fight of Natives.—Mistake in the name of Biscuit.—Departure from moreton bay. ..."

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