Thursday Island
- Local Government Area
- Torres
- Postcode
- 4875
- Population
- 2,805
- Area
- 3.72 km²
- Coordinates
- -10.5788, 142.2198
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Thursday Island
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 west of the island, formerly known as Port Kennedy, and also the name of the locality which contains the island within the Shire of Torres.
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- Keriri Island 4 km
- Horn 7 km
- Prince Of Wales 12 km
- Punsand 30 km
- New Mapoon 33 km
- Seisia 34 km