The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea.They span an area of 48,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi), but their total land area is 566 km 2 (219 sq mi).. The Islands have been inhabited by the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders.

Torres Strait Islanders (/ ˈ t ɒ r ɪ s-/) are the Indigenous Melanesian people of the Torres Strait Islands, which are part of the state of Queensland, Australia.Ethnically distinct from the Aboriginal people of the rest of Australia, they are often grouped with them as Indigenous Australians.Today there are many more Torres Strait Islander people living in mainland Australia (nearly 28,000 ...

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) (1990–2005) was the Australian Government body through which Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders were formally involved in the processes of government affecting their lives, established under the Hawke government in 1990. A number of Indigenous programs and organisations fell under the …

The Torres Strait (/ ˈ t ɒr ɪ s /), also known as Zenadh Kes, is a strait between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.It is 151 km (94 mi) wide at its narrowest extent. To the south is Cape York Peninsula, the northernmost extremity of the Australian mainland.To the north is the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.It is named after the Spanish navigator Luís Vaz de …

The Australian Indigenous Language Collection – registered in the UNESCO Memory of the World Program. This is a collection of printed materials in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages that represents 200 of the estimated 250 languages spoken before European colonisation, including 40 endangered languages. It is recognised by UNESCO as the "only …

Indigenous Australian art includes art made by Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including collaborations with others.It includes works in a wide range of media including painting on leaves, bark painting, wood carving, rock carving, watercolour painting, sculpting, ceremonial clothing and sand painting; art by Indigenous Australians that pre-dates European …

Thursday Island, colloquially known as TI, or in 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.TI is located approximately 39 kilometres (24 miles) north of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia. Thursday Island is also the name of the town in the south and …

Torres Strait Islands Queensland Australia: Aitutaki: Cook Islands Cook Islands: Ajeltokrok: Arno Atoll Marshall Islands: Ajirah: Hawar Islands Bahrain: Akajima: Kerama Islands part of the Okinawa Islands part of the Ryukyu Islands Japan: Akimiski: James Bay, Nunavut Canada: Akpatok: Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut Canada: Aksi: Gulf of ...

Die Torres-Strait-Inseln sind eine Inselgruppe in der Meerespassage Torres Strait zwischen der Nordspitze Australiens, dem Kap York, und der Südküste von Papua-Neuguinea.Sie gehören überwiegend zum australischen Bundesstaat Queensland.Einige Inseln entlang der Südküste von Neuguinea gehören zur Westprovinz von Papua-Neuguinea.. Zu ihnen zählen über 270 Inseln, …

History. The original site for the township of Bamaga was at a site known as "Muttee Heads" some 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of the present Bamaga township.The present site was established after World War II by people from Saibai Island in Torres Strait, after Saibai Island was devastated by abnormally high tides.It is named after Saibai elder Bamaga Ginau, who …