The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits was an expedition organized by Alfred Cort Haddon in 1898-1899 to Torres Strait Island, New Guinea, and Sarawak. Besides Haddon, the particip
Members of the 1898 Torres Straits Expedition. Standing (from left to right): W. H. R. Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Ray, Anthony Wilkin. Seated: Alfred Cort Haddon
Mer Island, Queensland
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Mer Island is a locality and island in Murray Island Group of the Torres Strait Island Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Mer Island had a population of 406 people.
View of Murray’s Islands with the natives offering to barter, watercolour painting by William Westall, 1802, on board the HMS Investigator on Matthew Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia
A native canoe meeting strangers off the Murray Islands, a watercolour painting by Edwin Augustus Porcher, 1845
School children on Mer Island, 1898
Teacher's house, 1911