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 Torres Strait Islands are an archipelago of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's...
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Torres Strait Islanders (/ˈtɒrɪs/ TORR-iss) are the Indigenous Melanesian people of the Torres Strait Islands, which are part of the state of Queensland...
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coordinates) Thursday Island, colloquially known as TI, or in the Kawrareg dialect, Waiben or Waibene, is an island of the Torres Strait Islands, an archipelago...
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Kalaw Lagaw Ya (redirect from Western-central Torres Strait Language)
Western Torres Strait language (also several other names, see below) is the language indigenous to the central and western Torres Strait Islands, Queensland...
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Shire of Torres is a local government area located in Far North Queensland, Australia, covering large sections of the Torres Strait Islands and the northern...
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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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Christine Anu (category Culture of the Torres Strait Islands)
and actress of Torres Strait Islander origin. She gained popularity with the cover song release of the Warumpi Band's song "My Island Home" in 1995. Anu...
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Quetta Memorial Precinct (redirect from All Souls and St Bartholomew's Cathedral Church, Thursday Island)
established a school for island boys. Torres Strait Islanders now refer to the arrival of the Christian missionaries in the Torres Strait in July 1871 as "the...
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History of Indigenous Australians (redirect from History of Torres Strait Islanders)
engaged in agriculture is controversial. The Torres Strait Islander people first settled their islands around 4,000 years ago. Culturally and linguistically...
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Governor Ready (1825 ship) (category Shipwrecks of the Torres Strait)
Edward Island, Canada in 1825. She made two voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia. She was wrecked in the Torres Strait in May...
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colonisation and Aboriginal dispossession in the Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait regions of Far North Queensland. Frank Jardine was born on 28 August...
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Green Hill Fort (category Thursday Island)
a heritage-listed fortification at Chester Street, Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. The fort is important in Australian military...
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state's tropical rainforests. The Torres Strait Islands is home to the Torres Strait Islander peoples. Torres Strait Islanders are ethnically and culturally...
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over-represented as victims of crime. As of September 2019[update], Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners represented 28% of the total adult prisoner population...
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Henry (1819 ship) (category Shipwrecks of the Torres Strait)
transporting convicts from England to Australia. She was wrecked in the Torres Strait in 1825. Henry was re-registered in London on 2 June 1820. She entered...
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Government in the 1890s. The island is also sometimes referred to as Bwgcolman, which is the name given to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from...
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including its outlying islands and territories. The outlying islands covered include: Christmas, Cocos (Keeling), Ashmore, Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Lord Howe...
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Later that year, Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through and navigated the Torres Strait Islands. The Dutch charted the whole of the western...
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and Torres Strait. Nevertheless, the sea still presented a major obstacle so it is theorised that these ancestral people reached Australia by island hopping...
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First voyage of James Cook (section Foveaux Strait)
of Torres Strait, earlier navigated by Luis Váez de Torres in 1606. Searching for a high vantage point, Cook saw a steep hill on a nearby island from...
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Sun (1819 ship) (category Shipwrecks of the Torres Strait)
began sailing east of the Cape. She was wrecked in May 1826 in the Torres Strait. Sun first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in the 1820 volume. On...
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Rachael Maza (category Torres Strait Islanders)
Ilbijerri Theatre Company since 2008. Rachael Zoa Maza is of Dutch, Torres Strait Islander (Meriam Mir) and Aboriginal Australian heritage, the daughter...
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Greenland (redirect from Island of Greenland)
to the west and southwest across Nares Strait and Baffin Bay, as well as a shared land border on Hans Island; and Iceland, southeast of Greenland in...
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Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He also participated in the Torres Strait Islands expedition of 1898 and his consequent seminal work on the subject...
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only half of the population, and 27% of prisoners were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders, while Indigenous people were only 2.8% of the population...
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Saumarez Reefs (category Coral Sea Islands)
Lihou had chosen a route through Torres Strait. This was the first occasion a ship was navigated through Torres Strait from west to east. It was also the...
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to 1926 Wyatt was engaged in surveying, mainly in Australia and the Torres Strait, with a period working on the east coast of England and the Thames Estuary...
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Sicily (redirect from Island of Sicily)
3,357 m (11,014 ft) high. The island has a typical Mediterranean climate. It is separated from Calabria by the Strait of Messina. It is one of the five...
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culturally distinct Torres Strait Islanders arrived from what is now Papua New Guinea around 2,500 years ago, and settled the islands on the northern tip...
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