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The cyclone crossed on to Australia’s mainland late Monday near the remote town of Borroloola on the southwestern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, where it had been lashing island communities for several days.

“Praiseworthy,” her fourth and latest novel, will be released by New Directions in the United States on Feb. 6, along with a reissue of “Carpentaria,” her most famous work.

In 1860, Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills traveled with 19 men — and a lot of camels and rum — about 2,000 miles from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The mystery emerged in 2015, when nearly 10 percent of the seemingly healthy mangrove forest along northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria suddenly died.

During the wet season, the Gulf of Carpentaria in tropical north Queensland holds a myriad of winding rivers, estuaries, creeks and streams that create one of nature's intricate vivid landscapes.