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Map of the Torres Strait Islands. The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait between Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea. This is a list of the named islands and island groups in the Torres Strait. In addition there are unnamed islands and named and unnamed rocks.
The Torres Strait Islands' population was recorded at 4,514 in the 2016 Australian census, with 91.8% of these identifying as Indigenous Torres Strait Island peoples. Although counted as Indigenous Australians, Torres Strait Islander peoples, being predominantly Melanesian, are ethnically and culturally different from Aboriginal Australians.
Islands in the Torres Strait Islands group. To comply with the Australian place name conventions, Islands should be disambiguated as necessary using name (state) or where there are more one island with that name in that state name (closer locality). Note that some islands in the Torres Strait may belong to Papua New Guinea rather than Australia.
Two indigenous languages are spoken on the Torres Strait Islands: Kala Lagaw Ya (also known by variant names and spellings), and Meriam Mir (Meriam), as well as Brokan [Broken], otherwise called Torres Strait Creole. Kala Lagaw Ya is the traditional language owned by the Western and Central islands of the Torres Strait.
Torres Strait Islands, Queensland Australia Aulneau: St. Lawrence River, Ontario Canada Aur Atoll: Ratak Chain Marshall Islands: Aureed: Torres Strait Islands, Queensland Australia Auskerry: The North Isles, Orkney Islands Scotland: Australia: Australia, Australia Australia Austvågøy: Lofoten Norway: Aux Herbes: Mississippi Sound, Alabama
The Torres Strait Island Region is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia, covering part of the Torres Strait Islands.It was created in March 2008 out of 15 autonomous Island Councils during a period of statewide local government reform.
Aukane Island Roberts Islet. 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 Torres Strait, and are part of the state of Queensland, Australia. [1]
Torres Strait Islander people are the only culture in the world to make turtleshell masks, known as krar (turtleshell) in the Western Islands and le-op (human face) in the Eastern Islands. [ 21 ] Prominent among the artforms is wame (alt. wameya ), many different string figures .