Poruma Island
- Local Government Area
- Torres Strait Island
- Postcode
- 4875
- Population
- 164
- Area
- 0.43 km²
- Coordinates
- -10.0503, 143.0694
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Poruma Island
Coconut Island, Poruma Island, or Puruma in the local language, is an island in the Great North East Channel near Cumberland Passage, Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. One of the Torres Strait Islands, Coconut Island is 130 kilometres (81 mi) north-east of Thursday Island and 106 kilometres (66 mi) south of Papua New Guinea. It is a narrow coral island approximately 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) long and 400 metres (0.25 mi) wide, bounded by shallow, fringing coral reefs.
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- Burrar Islet 29 km
- Warraber Islet 32 km
- Guijar Islet 35 km
- Iama Island 36 km
- Masig Island 50 km
- Ugar Island 80 km