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Capricornia is a term sometimes used for northern Australia, derived from the Tropic of Capricorn. It can apply to any of the items below:
- Areas associated with Queensland:
- Capricornia, Queensland, a region of the coast located around Rockhampton, Queensland
- Division of Capricornia, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives based around the region
- A proposed new Australian State based in northern Queensland
- Capricornia (novel), a 1938 novel by Australian author Xavier Herbert, set in the Northern Territory
- Capricornia (album), a 2002 album by Midnight Oil
- A single from the band Allo Darlin' from their album Europe
- Capricornia (trilobite), an extinct genus of trilobite
- Capricornia (genus), a genus of moths
Capricornia is an album by Midnight Oil that was released in 2002 under the Sony Music label in Australia, and the Liquid 8 record label internationally. Capricornia was the band's last studio album before they disbanded in late 2002.
Capricornia (1938) is the debut novel by Xavier Herbert.
Like his later work considered by many a masterpiece, the Miles Franklin Award-winning Poor Fellow My Country, it provides a fictional account of life in 'Capricornia', a place clearly modelled specifically on Australia's Northern Territory, and to a lesser degree on tropical Australia in general, (i.e. anywhere north of the Tropic of Capricorn) in the early twentieth century. It was written in London between 1930 and 1932.
Highly influenced by the Jindyworobak Movement, it also describes the inter-racial relationships and abuses of the period.
It was written before Herbert was acting Protector of the Aborigines in Darwin.
Capricornia is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Olethreutinae of the family Tortricidae.