Thursday Island
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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.
View of the township of Thursday Island
Customs House on Thursday Island
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, TI
Pearling luggers at Thursday Island, 1939
Horn Island, Queensland
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Horn Island, or Ngurupai/Narupai in the local language, is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago located in the Torres Strait, in Queensland in Northern Australia between the Australian m
Thursday Island
…place of many Japanese pearl shell divers, or possibly the Japanese thinking there were still Japanese residents on the island. However, neighbouring Horn Island was extensively bombed. There was an airbase there, used by the Allies to attack parts of New Guinea. At the end of the war, the island tradition of a…
Workings at the Horn Island gold mine, 1899