Coconut Island (Queensland)
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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 Isl
Poruma school, circa 1936
Coconut Island jetty at sunset, 2024
Torres Strait Islands
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The Torres Strait Islands are an archipelago 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 Gu
Coconut Island (Queensland)
…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…
Trading canoe at Erub (Darnley Island), c. 1849
The township of Thursday Island
Hammond Island, Torres Strait
Languages used at home by Torres Strait Islanders in localities with significant share of Torres Strait islander population.