Gulf of Carpentaria Materials:Canvas - Stretched with Float Frame Painted Hills - 2336

Painted Hills - 2336

Mangroves stabilize the shoreline and filter nutrients

a vast salt basin framed by the ochres of the outback

The surrounding floodplains remain largely uncultivated

seeping through the porous ground

Gulf of Carpentaria Materials:Canvas - Stretched with Float Frame Painted Hills - 2336Gulf of Carpentaria 9538 Limited Edition 10 The salt pans of the southeastern Gulf of Carpentaria shores are the result of complexly interacting factors. In summer (November to April), with very flat land drainage, monsoonal rain, magnified tides, and wind piling up the sea on shore, the salt pan area is submerged by the sea, and behind it the land area is submerged by the drainage water backing up the blocked rivers. During the dry season (May to