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
Meriam language
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Meriam or the Eastern Torres Strait language is the language of the people of the small islands of Mer, Waier and Dauar, Erub, and Ugar in the eastern Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. In the West
Languages used at home by Torres Strait Islanders in localities with significant share of Torres Strait islander population.