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Goodwin Rosen Goodwin George "Goody" Rosen (August 28, 1912 – April 6, 1994) was a Canadian center fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1937 through 1946, Rosen played outfield for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1937-39, 1944-46) and New York Giants (1946).
Goodwin Sands The Goodwin Sands are a 10-mile long sand bank in the English Channel, lying six miles east of Deal in Kent, England. More than 2,000 ships are believed to have been wrecked upon them and as a result, they are marked by numerous lightships and buoys.
Goodwood Breeders' Cup Handicap The Goodwood Breeders' Cup Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Santa Anita Park during the Oak Tree Racing Association meet each year. Formerly known as the Goodwood Handicap, it is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt.
Goodwood Circuit Goodwood Circuit is a name that is ingrained in motorsport, being one of the truly historic venues for both 2- and 4-wheeled motorsport in the UK. Goodwood is based in the lands around Goodwood House where there is both a short-circuit track and a hill track.
Goodwood Cup The Goodwood Cup is a Group 2 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 2 miles (3,219 metres) at Goodwood Racecourse during the Glorious Goodwood meeting in late July / early August.
Goodwood Festival of Speed The Goodwood Festival of Speed is an annual hill climb featuring historic motor racing vehicles that is held in the grounds of Goodwood House, West Sussex, UK. It was started in 1993 by the present Earl of March in order to bring motor racing back to the Goodwood estate - a location steeped in British motor racing history.
Goodwood Island Goodwood Island is an island situated been the main channel of the Clarence River and the river's north Arm near Iluka and Woombah, New South Wales Australia. It has a large wharf at the Port of Yamba where ocean traders collect cargo to take to New Zealand, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.
Goodwood Park Hotel The Goodwood Park Hotel (Chinese: 良木园大酒店) is a 235-room hotel in Singapore. It is located at Scotts Road in the Orchard Planning Area, within the Central Area in Singapore's central business district.
Goodwood Plantation Goodwood Plantation (also known as Old Croom Mansion) was a medium sized cotton plantation of about 1,675 acres (7 km2) in central Leon County, Florida, established by Hardy Croom. It is located at 1500 Miccosukee Road.
Goodwood railway station, Adelaide Goodwood railway station is the last common railway station of the Noarlunga Centre and Tonsley, and the Belair lines, travelling away from Adelaide. The Belair line diverges southeast towards Millswood (closed)and Unley Park Station,while the Noarlunga Centre and Tonsley lines diverge southwest towards Clarence Park.
Goodwood Racecourse Goodwood Racecourse is a horse-racing track five miles north of Chichester, West Sussex, in England controlled by the family of the Duke of Richmond, whose seat is nearby Goodwood House. It hosts the annual Glorious Goodwood meeting, which is one of the highlights of the British flat racing calendar.
Goodwood Road, Adelaide Goodwood Road is a major north-south arterial road, approximately 10 kilometres long, running from the Central Business District to the Adelaide suburbs of Pasadena and Panorama. Starting at the intersection of Anzac Highway, West Terrace and South Terrace in the south-western corner of the Adelaide CBD, the road continues south, through the southern Adelaide Parklands, where it crosses Greenhill Road, passing the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds, crossing the Glenelg tramline and on to the Goodwood subway adjacent to the former Millswood Railway Station.
Goody's Powder Goody's Powder is an over-the-counter pain reliever, in crushed "powder" form, marketed and sold by GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals. Like BC Powder, with which it is commonly confused, Goody's is sold primarily in the American South.
Goodyear Blimp The Goodyear Blimp is the collective name for a fleet of blimps operated by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company for advertising purposes and for use as a television camera platform for sporting events. Goodyear began producing airship envelopes in 1911 and introduced its own blimp, "The Pilgrim," in 1925.
Goodyear Inflatoplane The Goodyear Inflatoplane was an experimental aircraft made by the Goodyear Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, well known for the Goodyear blimp. The Inflatoplane was roughly equivalent to the Piper Cub.
Goodyear Polyglas tire A trademark of Goodyear, it was the name of a bias belted tire introduced in 1967 which generally had a wider tread than most other tires on the market at the time and used belts made of fiberglass. It was initially was an original equipment tire on late 1960s muscle cars such as the Pontiac GTO, Dodge Charger R/T, Ford Mustang Mach I, Chevrolet Camaro Z-28 and many others along with comparable tires from various competitors such as the Firestone Wide-Ovals.
Goof A goof in film making is an error made during film production which finds its way into the final released picture. Depending upon the film and the actual scene, the goof may have different effects: a loss in realism, an annoyance, or it could just be funny.
Goofey Goofey was an early instant messaging program for UNIX systems, written in the mid-1990s by Tim MacKenzie. At the time it was seen as an improvement over the UNIX talk and mail programs and was popular with computer science students studying at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where it originated.
Googie architecture Googie, also known as populuxe or doo-wop, is a subdivision of expressionist, or futurist architecture influenced by car culture and the Space Age, originating from southern California in the late 1940s and continuing approximately into the mid-1960s. With upswept roofs and, often, curvaceous, geometric shapes, and bold use of glass, steel and neon, it decorated many a motel, coffee house and bowling alley in the 1950s and 1960s.
Googlability As the search engine Google becomes the increasingly dominant search engine on the internet, the word googlability has entered the daily language of net surfers [1]. Roughly speaking, the word refers to the quality of being easy to be located by search engines, especially www.
Google Analytics Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that a webmaster can optimize their AdWords advertisement and marketing campaigns through the use of GA's analysis of where the visitors came from, how long they stayed on the website, and their geographical position.
Google bomb A Google bomb is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions.Tom Zeller Jr.
Google Base Google Base is an online database provided by Google into which any user can add almost any type of content. As of 2007, it is available to the public as a beta version, however the rest of Google's services do not yet contain information about, or link to, information from Google Base.
Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped is a blog authored by Philipp Lenssen covering the search engine company Google. While it concentrates on Google, it has a "Contains 80% Google" stamp, representing the fact that Lenssen also writes about other things that interest him including other search engines, web development, global affairs and even comic book characters.
Google Book Search Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans and stores in its digital database. The service was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004.
Google Browser Sync Google Browser Sync is a freeware beta product from Google which debuted in Google Labs on June 8, 2006 that allows users of the Firefox web browser to synchronize their settings across multiple computers via the Internet. It requires a Google Account, in which the user's cookies, saved passwords, bookmarks, history, tabs and open windows can be stored.
Google Co-op Google Co-op is a platform provided by Google that allows web developers to feature specialized information in web searches, refine and categorise queries, and create customized search engines, based on Google Web Search. Google launched the service on May 10, 2006.
Google Desktop Google Desktop is Google's desktop search software for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000 SP3+ PC. The program allows full text search of a user's e-mail, computer files, music, photos, chat, and Web pages viewed.
Google Docs & Spreadsheets Google Docs & Spreadsheets, sometimes simply called Google Docs is a Web-based word processor] and [[spreadsheet application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents and spreadsheets online while collaborating in real-time with other users.
Google economy The term Google Economy refers to the concept that the value of a resource, in this instance a web page, can be determined by the way that resource is linked to other resources. It is more complex than search ranking, and broader than interlinked web pages, though it draws meaning from both.
Google Earth Google Earth is a virtual globe program that was originally called Earth Viewer and was created by Keyhole, Inc. It maps the earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe.
Google generation The Google generation is a phrase that has entered popular usage as a shorthand way of referring to a generation whose first port of call for knowledge is the internet and a search engine, Google being the most popular one. This is in distinction to previous generations that grew up and were educated before the widespread availability of the internet, and whose source of knowledge was through books and conventional libraries.
Google Hacking Google Hacking is a term that refers to the art of creating complex search engine queries in order to filter through large amounts of search results for particular information. In its malicious format it can be used to detect websites that are vulnerable to numerous exploits and vulnerabilities as well as locate private, sensitive information about others, such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, and passwords.
Google Hacks Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter Searching (ISBN 0-596-00447-8) is a book of tips about Google, a popular Internet search engine, by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest. The book was published by O'Reilly in February 2003.
Google Checkout Google Checkout is an online payment processing service provided by Google aimed at simplifying the process of paying for online purchases. Users store their credit card and shipping information in their Google Account, so that they can purchase at participating stores at the click of a button.
Google Idol/ Kids Competition 1 The first Gidol Kids Competition started on April 22, 2006 and ended on June 24, 2006. There were sixteen competitors in the competition and ended with 8-year-old Julia from the Netherlands winning the competition.
Google Idol/ Rock Music Video Competition 3 The third Gidol Rock Music Video Competition started on August 25, 2006 and has yet to end. There was 16 videos in the competition, and the preliminary round was based off of the new system where all of the videos are rated during the week at the same time by people who watch the video.
Google Image Search In December 2001, Google announced Google Images, which allows users to search the web for image content. The keywords for the image search are based on the filename of the image, the link text pointing to the image, and text adjacent to the image.
Google juice Google juice is an internet slang for the ability or power of a website to turn up in Google searches. A website that commonly turns up as the first or second entry in a variety of searches — especially for keywords that are not part of the site's name — can be said to have a lot of Google juice.
Google Maps Google Maps (for a time named Google Local) is a free web map server application and technology provided by Google that powers many map-based services including Google Maps, Google Ride Finder and embedded maps on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner, and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world.
Google Notebook Google Notebook is a free service offered by Google that provides a simple way to save and organize thoughts when conducting research online. This personal browser tool permits a user to write notes, and to clip text, images, and links from pages during browsing.
Google platform Google, being the most popular Internet search engine (over 50% market share), requires large computational resources in order to provide their service. This article describes Google's technological infrastructure, as presented in the company's public announcements.
Google Pack Google Pack is "a one-stop software package that helps you discover, install, and maintain a wide range of essential PC programs,"intended for buyers of new PCs. It was announced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show], on [[January 6.
Google Patents Google Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which are taken from the original USPTO database (which is in the public domain). All 7 million patents have been put in the database.
Google PC A Google PC, or Google Cube is reputedly a cheap computer, selling for approximately $200 and built by google. The google cube was mentioned in media reports in the run up to Google co-founder Larry Page's January 6th 2006 speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las VegasGoogle 'to launch $200 computer' The Daily Telegraph (London); Jan 4, 2006; DAVID LITTERICK; p.
Google riff A Google riff is a series of internet pages that narrate the path by which a single Google search expanded and developed. Although similar to a simple list of bookmarks or URIs (which often show a more structured approach to research), a Google riff is meant to represent inspiration, exploration, and hence a kind of highly-personal improvisation.
Google search algorithm Google search algorithm runs on a unique combination of hardware and an advanced an script in software called an algorithm. The speed of a google can be attributed in part to the efficiency of this search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC's Google have networked together to create with their bandwidth a superfast search engine.
Google Search Appliance The Google Search Appliance is a rack-mounted device which provides document indexing functionality that can be integrated into an intranet, document management system or web site using a Google search-like interface for end-user retrieval. It is manufactured and distributed by Google, and is aimed primarily at the corporate market.
Google Scholar Google Scholar (GS) is a freely-accessible web search engine that indexes the full-text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the GS index includes most peer-reviewed online journals, except for those published by Elsevier, the world's largest scientific publisher.
Google SketchUp 6 Google SketchUp 6 is a 3D modelling program designed for professional architects, civil engineers, filmmakers, game developers, and related professions. It was designed to be more intuitive, flexible, and easy-to-use than other 3D modelling programs, which often have steep learning curves.
Google Summer of Code The Google Summer of Code is an annual program first held during the northern hemisphere summer of 2005 in which Google awarded cash prizes to students who successfully completed a free software / open-source coding project during the summer. The event draws its name from the 1967 Summer of Love.
Google Video Google Video is a free Google service that allows anyone to upload video clips to Google's web servers as well as make their own media available free of charge; some videos are also offered for sale through the Google Video Store.
Google Voice Search Google Voice is a tool from Google Labs that allows someone to use their phone to make a google query. After the user calls (650) 623-6706, the number of Google Voice's search system, they wait for the words Say your Search Keywords and then say the keywords.
Google Watch Google Watch is a website run by Public Information Research, started in 2002 by Daniel Brandt. Brandt states that the website's goals are to report on conflicts of interest in Google's corporate structure, the dependency of the public on it for information, invasion of privacy issues, and its increasing commercial links with private interests.
Google Web Accelerator Google Web Accelerator is a web accelerator produced by Google. It uses client software installed on the user's computer, as well as data caching on Google's servers, to speed up page load times by means of data compression, prefetching of content, and sharing cached data between users.
Google WiFi Google WiFi is a service launched by Google on September 20 2005. It currently serves only some locations in San Francisco and all of Mountain View, California Google is trying it out at a pizza parlor] (Kapp's Pizza Bar and Grill in [[Mountain View, CA) and gym (Airborne Gymnastics in Santa Clara, California) next to the Google headquarters.
Google X Google X was a project released by Google Labs on March 15 2005 and rescinded a day later. It consisted of the traditional Google search bar, but it was made to look like the Dock user interface feature of Apple's Mac OS X operating system.
Googlefight Googlefight is a simple World Wide Web service that allows users to compare the number of search results returned by the Google search engine for two given queries. The results are displayed graphically in a mixed flash and javascript animation.
Googlepedia Googlepedia is a free software extension to the Web browser, Mozilla Firefox, that displays relevant articles from the free Web-based encyclopedia, Wikipedia, on Google search engine results pages. The name Googlepedia is a portmanteau of Google and encyclopedia.
Googleshare Googleshare is a measure of mindshare based on the results of Google search engine queries. It is a percentage measuring how closely one thing belongs to another according to page counts returned by Google (similar measures using other search engines are possible).
GoogleTap GoogleTap is the byproduct of PHP-Nuke] that uses [[PHP and modrewrite (Apache) to turn dynamic links into static-like URLs. This technique permits the ability to see shorter URLs, allows for greater search engine accessibility, and with the newest version shows titles inline URL.
Googlewhack A Googlewhack is a Google search query consisting of two words--both of which must be in Google's dictionary, and without quotation marks--that returns a single result. A successful Googlewhack returns 'Results 1-1 of 1'.
Googlism Googlism is a web-application which queries text in google, and displays the multiple ways in which the term is used among the results. The point is to type a word, and see what google "thinks" about that word.
Googly In cricket, a googly is a type of delivery bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler. It is occasionally referred to as a Bosie (or Bosey) after its inventor Bernard Bosanquet; in Australia it is commonly referred to as a wrong'un.
Googol A googol is the large number 10100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros (in decimal representation). One way of grasping its size is to multiply 1,000,000 by itself 16 times, then multiply the result by ten thousand.
Googolhedron A googolhedron is a polyhedron with a googol (10100) faces. The googolhedron is a purely imaginary object; since a googol is several orders of magnitude larger than the estimated number of particles in the known universe, one could never be physically constructed.
Goolengook The Goolengook valley is a remote forested region of south-eastern Australia, located near Orbost in the far eastern corner of Victoria. It contains a number of forest types including a rare warm temperate/cool temperate "Overlap Rainforest".
Goolgowi, New South Wales Goolgowi is located in western New South Wales, Australia, around 650 km west of Sydney via the Mid-Western Highway and is the administrative centre of Carrathool Shire. As a remote outback town, Goolgowi could be described as being beyond the black stump (an expression used to describe incredible isolation).
Goolwa, South Australia Goolwa is a historic river port on the River Murray near the Murray Mouth in South Australia, , and joined by a bridge to Hindmarsh Island. The name "Goolwa" means "elbow" in Ngarrindjeri, the local Aboriginal language.
Goomba (emulator) Goomba, named after an iconic enemy in the Mario series, is a freely available Game Boy emulator for the Game Boy Advance, developed by Fredrik Olsson (FluBBA). When the project was first started, the only reason for development was for the sheer fun of it, since the GBA could already play GB games natively.
Goombay Goombay is a form of Bahamian music and a drum used to create it. Its most famous practitioner in modern times was Alphonso 'Blind Blake' Higgs, who performed at the Nassau International Airport for many years.
Goombella Goombella is a fictional, female video game character from the Mario Series created by Nintendo. Goombella makes her first appeared in 2004 in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for the Nintendo GameCube, the sequel to Paper Mario.
Goon Moon Goon Moon is the name under which Jeordie White (formerly known as Twiggy Ramirez from Marilyn Manson), Zach Hill, and Chris Goss released a mini-LP called I Got a Brand New Egg-Laying Machine. The two have since recorded a full length album due Spring 2007 on Ipecac Recordings, entitled "Licker's Last Leg".
Goon of Fortune Goon of Fortune, also known as Wheel of Goon (derivatives of the television game show Wheel of Fortune), is a drinking game that originated in Australia. Some might claim it is one of the most quintessentially Australian games, as it takes advantage of two Australian icons: cask wine (goon), and the Hills Hoist.
Goon squad (politics) Goon squad is a term used in reference to many government, military, or labor- or "anti-labor" organization vigilantes. It also refers to a group of criminals involved in acts of intimidation or thuggery on behalf an individual, usually for profit.
Goon Show episodes and archiving The Goon Show was a popular and influential British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 on the BBC Home Service. This article discusses and lists the episodes that survive, as well as the history of their broadcast.
Goondiwindi Town Council Goondiwindi Town Council is a Local Government Area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The Town area covers the urban locality of Goondiwindi, Queensland and is bordered on the south by the state of New South Wales and to the north, east and west by Waggamba Shire.
Goong (manhwa) Goong (Hangul: 궁, literally "Palace") is a currently ongoing Manhwa series by author So-Hee Park. It has been adapted into a popular TV drama series of the same name, known in English as Princess Hours.
Goonhilly Downs Goonhilly Downs forms a raised plateau in the central western area of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. Situated just south of Helston and the Naval Air Station at Culdrose, it is famous for its Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, the largest one in the world.
Gooniyandi language Gooniyandi is an Australian Aboriginal language now spoken by about 100 people, most of whom live in or near Fiztroy Crossing in Western Australia. Gooniyandi is an endangered language as it is not being passed on to children, who instead grow up speaking Kriol.
Gooom Disques Gooom Disques, or Gooom, is an electronic music record label based in Paris, France. Gooom was founded by Jean-Philippe Talaga in 1997 after interviewing UK post-rock act Stereolab for his fanzine and both parties agreeing to release music.
Goopy Geer Goopy Geer is an animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. The character is a tall, lanky humanoid dog with scruffy whiskers and long, expressive ears.
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, (Bengali গূপী গ্য্ন বঘ ব্য্ন) directed by the late Satyajit Ray and based on a story by Upendra Kishore Ray, is a popular Bengali children's film. Also known as The Adventures Of Goopy And Bagha, the film is notable as one of Ray's few films with an abundance of musical numbers.
Goorambat Football Club The Goorambat Football Club (The Bats) is particularly well known for their Reserve team, which has won back to back flags in 2005/6. Many of the team members travel from Melbourne each week to play, and although most of them are hung-over, they still manage to do alright.
Goos-Hänchen effect The Goos-Hänchen effect is an optical phenomenon in which linearly polarized light undergoes a small shift, parallel to the direction of propagation, when totally internally reflected. This effect is the linear polarization analog of the Imbert-Fedorov effect.
Goose Creek (Potomac River) Goose Creek is a meandering watercourse in Northern Virginia. Goose Creek rises in Fauquier County on the Blue Ridge near Linden and flows north through Loudoun County where it meets the Potomac River between Lansdowne and River Creek residential communities.
Goose Creek Symphony The Goose Creek Symphony is an American rock band, originally a side project for Richie Hart and the Heart Beats. The band signed to Capitol Records in 1970, and new members were added: Mike McFadden of Superfine Dandelion, Bob Henke, Fred Wise on banjo and fiddle and Paul Spradlin, a guitarist credited as Paul Howard.
Goose Gonsoulin Austin William "Goose" Gonsoulin (born June 7, 1938 in Port Arthur, Texas) of Baylor University was a professional football safety, one of the original Denver Broncos from the 1960 season. At the end of his Bronco career, he was the all-time American Football League leader in interceptions with 43.
Goose Goslin Leon Allen Goslin (October 16, 1900 – May 15, 1971), better known as Goose Goslin, was a left fielder in Major League Baseball known for his powerful left-handed swing and dependable clutch hitting. He played eighteen seasons with the Washington Senators, St.
Goose Guandong virus The "Goose Guandong" virus is a variant of the orthomyxovirus subtype H5N1. It is primarily an avian virus, but is thought to be the genetic origin of the current Z genotype of the H5N1 "bird flu" virus currently affecting the Far East.
Goose Hollow, Portland, Oregon Goose Hollow acquired its distinctive name through early residents’ practice of letting their geese run free throughout the wooded hollow in the Tualatin Mountains. The Southwest Portland, Oregon neighborhood is adjacent to Downtown Portland, the Pearl District, the Hillside neighborhood, and Washington Park.
Goose Hollow/Southwest Jefferson Street (MAX station) The Goose Hollow/SW Jefferson Street station is a light rail station on the MAX Blue Line and Red Line in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. It is the 3rd stop westbound on the Westside MAX alignment.
Goose Lane Editions Goose Lane Editions a Canadian book publishing company founded in 1958 in Fredericton, New Brunswick as Fiddlehead Poetry Books by Fred Cogswell and a group of students and faculty from the University of New Brunswick. Cogswell retired in 1981 and his successor, Peter Thomas, changed the name to Goose Lane Editions.
Goose Pond Goose Pond is a 554-acre water body located in Grafton County in western New Hampshire, United States, in the towns of Canaan and Hanover. The lake is part of the Mascoma River watershed, flowing to the Connecticut River.
Goose Rocks A coastal resort neighborhood located in the town of Kennebunkport, Maine, bordered by Cape Porpoise (another neighborhood of Kennebunkport) to the South, and Granite Point (a coastal neighborhood of Biddeford, Maine) to the North. The Little River, which forms a border between Kennebunkport and Biddeford, empties into Goosefare Bay, which body of water is faced by Goose Rocks Beach.
Gooseberry Beach Gooseberry Beach is a beach located in Newport, Rhode Island off of scenic Ocean Drive. It is open to the public free of charge, though there is a $15 all-day fee for parking (discounted to $10 or $5 in the late afternoon).
Gooseberry Cove, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador Gooseberry Cove is a settlement in the Trinity Bay area of Newfoundland located on an area of land known as the Southwest Arm, which extends off the Trans Canada Highway on Route 204. It is neighbored by the communities of Butter Cove and Southport.
Gooseberry Falls State Park Gooseberry Falls State Park is a Minnesota state park on the north shore of Lake Superior. The park is located about 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Two Harbors, Minnesota in Lake County on scenic Minnesota State Highway 61.
Gooseberry Hill National Park Gooseberry Hill National Park is a national park in Western Australia (Australia), in the locality of Gooseberry Hill, Western Australia 21 km east of Perth. It is at the southern side of the mouth of the Helena Valley on the Darling Scarp.
Goosefish Goosefishes are a family, Lophiidae, of anglerfishes. They are found in the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans where they live on sandy and muddy bottoms of the continental shelf and continental slope, at depths in excess of 1,000 m.

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