The Three Sisters are three islands in the Vigilant Channel of the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. The islands are, from north to south, Bet Islet...
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Sue Islet (Queensland) (redirect from Sue Islet, Torres Strait)
is the middle islet of The Three Sisters, Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. This island is one of the Torres Strait Islands and is within the locality...
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pidgin English being used in Torres Strait exist from as early as the 1840s (e.g. Moore 1979), and therefore Torres Strait Creole may very well be as old...
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coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait between Queensland, Australia and...
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The Mills Sisters, formerly known as the Singing Grandmas, were a group of three sisters from Torres Strait Islands, Rita Mills and twins Cessa and Ina...
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Thursday Island (redirect from Thursday Island, Torres Strait)
the Kawrareg dialect, Waiben or Waibene, is an island of the Torres Strait Islands, an archipelago of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait...
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Indigenous Australians (redirect from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people)
identified as Torres Strait Islander; while 4.4% identified with both groups. Since 1995, the Australian Aboriginal flag and the Torres Strait Islander flag...
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Murray Island, Queensland (redirect from Murray Island, Torres Strait)
in the Torres Strait Island Region, Queensland, Australia. The island is part of the Murray Island Group in the Torres Strait. The town is on the island's...
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Poll Island (category Torres Strait Islands)
Island), is an Australian island in the center of the Torres Strait Islands. It lies in the southern part of The Three Sisters island group and is located 5...
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Kalaw Lagaw Ya (redirect from Western-central Torres Strait Language)
or the Western Torres Strait language (also several other names, see below) is the language indigenous to the central and western Torres Strait Islands...
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Bourke Isles (redirect from Aukane Islet, Torres Strait)
The Bourke Isles are a group of islands and islets in the archipelago known as the Torres Strait Islands, located west of the Cumberland Passage in the...
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Hammond Island (Queensland) (redirect from Hammond Island, Torres Strait)
a town of the same name, in the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. It is the only island within the locality of Keriri Island within the local government...
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The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI), founded in Adelaide, South Australia, as the Federal Council...
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are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands...
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Duncan Islands (category Torres Strait Islands)
The Duncan Islands are a group of islands in the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, northwest of the Bramble Channel of Torres Strait in Queensland, Australia...
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for her work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, where she was the senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the gallery from around...
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Lowitja O'Donoghue (category Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
administrator and Indigenous rights advocate. She was the inaugural chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) from 1990 to 1996...
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Northern Territory The Medics – rock band from Cairns, Queensland Microwave Jenny – singer-songwriters Mills Sisters – band from Torres Strait Islands Mixed...
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Islands Tern Island Thomson Islet Thorpe Island Three Islands The Three Sisters Sue Islet Torres Strait Islands Trochus Island Turtle Group Watson Island...
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Stolen Generations (redirect from The Stolen Generation)
The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed...
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Bass Strait (/bæs/) is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception...
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Pijin language (category Languages of the Solomon Islands)
Vanuatu; the three varieties are sometimes considered to be dialects of a single Melanesian Pidgin language. It is also related to Torres Strait Creole...
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National Museum of Australia (redirect from Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters)
mainland communities and the Torres Strait (July 2002 – July 2006) Nation: Symbols of Australia: from the Hills Hoist clothes line to the legend of ANZAC, this...
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Wintjiya Napaltjarri (category Artists from the Northern Territory)
black against a white background. A finalist in the 2007 and 2008 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Wintjiya's work is held in...
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Indigenous Australian groups of peoples, the other being Torres Strait Islanders. There has also been discussion about the use of "Indigenous" vs "Aboriginal"...
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List of archipelagos (section Bering Strait)
Rocks Kippel Islands Moonboom Islands Red Cliff Islands Repulse Islands Torres Strait Islands Duncan Islands Turtle Group Two Brothers Two Islands Whitsunday...
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kinship is to the spouse of the person's paternal male sibling, as opposed to a blood-relationship. Many Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples...
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Torres Strait Islander hymn shows the influence of gospel music mixed with traditionally strong Torres Strait Islander vocals and country music. The Australian...
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Warraber Islet, Queensland (category Torres Strait Island Region)
the Torres Strait Island Region, Queensland, Australia. It consists of a single island, Sue Islet (also known as Warraber), the middle island of The Three...
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deputy Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through Australia's Torres Strait. The English navigator James Cook's favourable account of the fertile east coast of...
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