Murray Island, Queensland
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Murray Island in the Torres Strait Island Region, Queensland, Australia. The island is part of the Murray Island Group in the Torres Strait. The town is on the island's northwest coast and within the locality of Mer Island. The island is of volcanic origin, the most easterly inhabited island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, just north of the Great Barrier Reef. The name Meer/Mer/Maer comes from the native Meriam language. In the 2016 census, Murray Island had a population of 453.
School children on Mer Island, 1898
Torres Strait Islanders
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Torres Strait Islanders are the Indigenous Melanesian people of the Torres Strait Islands, which are part of the state of Queensland, Australia. Ethnically distinct from the Aboriginal peoples of the rest of Australia, they are often grouped with them as Indigenous Australians. Today, there are many more Torres Strait Islander people living in mainland Australia than on the Islands.
Geographical distribution of people with Torres Strait Islander Indigenous status.
Geographical distribution of people with both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Indigenous status.
Geographical distribution of people with Torres Strait Islander ancestry.
Indigenous Status of population in localities with significant share of Torres Strait islander population.