Trochus Island is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, located in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, east of Cape York Peninsula, in Queensland...

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"Tree Island – island in the Torres Shire (entry 35150)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 3 November 2019. "Trochus Island – island...

Head Island 12.8 km2 or 4.9 sq mi and Trochus Island 2.2 km2 or 0.85 sq mi. Further islands are Mai Island 0.25 km2 or 0.097 sq mi, Bush Island 0.2 km2...

Turtle Island is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, located in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, east of Cape York Peninsula, in Queensland...

Turtle Head Island is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, located in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, east of Cape York Peninsula, in...

symbolically until the legislative elections of February 1871). Trochu was born at Le Palais on the island of Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the coast of Brittany. Educated...

Trochus maculatus, common name the maculated top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails...

in the region. Outside of fishing, the islands were historically used as sources of guano, beche-de-mer, trochus and tortoiseshell. Mining of phosphate...

industry of pearl and trochus shells, for using the mother of pearl as decoration, started in earnest in the 1860s. By the 1890s, the islands were supplying...

Trochidae, the top snails. The name Trochus histrio was not well described by Reeve, and as was his custom in Trochus, only a back view was given by Reeve...

Asperitas trochus (O. F. Müller, 1774) Asperitas bimaensis johnabbasi Thach, 2020 Asperitas bimaensis liei Thach, 2018: junior synonym of Asperitas trochus (O...

Trochus stellatus, common name the stellate trochus, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. The...

Trochus tentorium is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. It differs from Trochus maculatus Linnaeus, 1758 in being...

buttons. The local pearl oyster is Golden Lip Oyster, Pinctada maxima. Trochus shell was also gathered using specialized boats. Most shell was exported...

Trochus camelophorus is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top snails. The height of the shell attains...

space. An initial density of 100 trochus m-2 achieves a basal diameter of 10-20mm which can then be reduced to 50 trochus m-2 to yield basal diameters 25-40mm...

endemic to New Zealand, found under rocks at about 15–20 m off Great Barrier Island.[citation needed] Marshall, B. (2014). Clanculus (Paraclanculus) peccatus...

travelling widely to other islands on sea-going sailing canoes. During the more recent past, people harvested copra, trochus and pearl-shells and some...

betel nuts, sweet potatoes, cassava, tropical fruits and vegetables, trochus shells, cacao and rice are produced. Livestock, such as pigs and poultry...

sortable list of islands of Western Australia includes all coastal and inland islands, cays, isles and islets. It also includes named island groups, archipelagos...

million (f.o.b., 2008 est.) Exports - commodities: fish, coconut oil, trochus shells Exports - partners: United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand...

includes all coastal and inland islands, cays, isles and islets. It also includes named island groups, archipelagos and island clumps. This list is complete...

bêche-de-mer in the lagoon. This is exported mainly to Asia, and along with trochus shells, used to make mother-of-pearl, they comprise the backbone of the...

cucumber, trochus, and tropical rock lobster are not allowed. Barber (Boodthean) Reef is a nearshore fringing reef adjacent to the island. "Barber (Boodthean)...

attracting a diverse community of immigrants, some brought by the pearl and trochus shell industry. In 1872, the Queensland Government sought to extend its...

Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and in the Atlantic Ocean (Azores, Canary Islands, Morocco). MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Steromphala cineraria...

such as fish, beche-de-mer and trochus for cash. An international NGO, Conservation International, has selected the island for the future development of...

about 103 km (64 mi) southeast of Red Deer and 16 km (9.9 mi) northeast of Trochu, 1 mile north and 10 miles east of Huxley. The park is situated along the...

the adjacent mainland in 1863 at Somerset, Queensland. There was still a trochus shell farm there in 1995, and there is now an operational pearl farm. The...