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Horn Island, Queensland, the Glossary

Horn Island, or Ngurupai/Narupai (pronounced Nœrupai/Nurupai) 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 mainland and Papua New Guinea.^[1]

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Aboriginal communities in Queensland
Shire of Torres
Torres Strait Islands
Torres Strait Islands communities

Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is a peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Division of Leichhardt

The Division of Leichhardt is an Australian electoral division in Queensland.

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Electoral district of Cook

Cook is an electoral district in Queensland, Australia.

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Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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Equator

The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Hammond Island (Queensland)

Hammond Island (Indigenous name: Keriri or Kiriri) is an island with a town of the same name, in the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. Horn Island, Queensland and Hammond Island (Queensland) are Aboriginal communities in Queensland, Torres Strait Islands and towns in Queensland.

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Horn Island Airport

Horn Island Airport is a minor international airport on Horn Island in the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia.

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Island

An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.

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Kalaw Lagaw Ya

Kalau Lagau Ya, Kalaw Lagaw Ya, Kala Lagaw Ya, or the Western Torres Strait language (also several other names, see below) is the language indigenous to the central and western Torres Strait Islands, Queensland, Australia.

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Kaurareg

Kaurareg (alt. Kauraraiga, plural Kauraraigalai, Kauraregale) is the name for one of the Indigenous Australian groups collectively known as Torres Strait Islander peoples, although many or most identify as Aboriginal Australians.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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List of Torres Strait Islands

The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait between Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea. Horn Island, Queensland and List of Torres Strait Islands are Torres Strait Islands.

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London Missionary Society

The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams.

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Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland.

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Moa Island (Queensland)

Moa Island, also called Banks Island, is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago that is located north of Thursday Island in the Banks Channel of Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. Horn Island, Queensland and Moa Island (Queensland) are Torres Strait Islands and Torres Strait Islands communities.

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Naval Base Brisbane

Naval Base Brisbane was a major United States Navy base built in the early part of World War II at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Northern Australia

The unofficial geographic term Northern Australia includes those parts of Queensland and Western Australia north of latitude 26° and all of the Northern Territory.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Pearl hunting

Pearl hunting, also known as pearling, is the activity of recovering or attempting to recover pearls from wild molluscs, usually oysters or mussels, in the sea or freshwater.

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Prince of Wales Island (Queensland)

The Prince of Wales Island, or Muralag, is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago at the tip of Cape York Peninsula within the Endeavour Strait of Torres Strait in Queensland, Australia. Horn Island, Queensland and Prince of Wales Island (Queensland) are Shire of Torres, Torres Strait Islands and Torres Strait Islands communities.

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Prince Of Wales, Queensland

Prince Of Wales is an island locality in the Shire of Torres, Queensland, Australia. Horn Island, Queensland and Prince Of Wales, Queensland are Shire of Torres.

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Punsand, Queensland

Punsand is a coastal locality in the Shire of Torres, Queensland, Australia. Horn Island, Queensland and Punsand, Queensland are Shire of Torres.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Queensland Government

The Queensland Government is the state government of Queensland, Australia, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Queensland place naming

Queensland place naming is the process by which the Queensland Government assigns names to locations of natural features (e.g. mountains and rivers) and man-made places such as settlements (e.g. towns and suburbs) within Queensland, Australia.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns is located in the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Royal Australian Air Force

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is the principal aerial warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Army.

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Shire of Torres

The Shire of Torres is a local government area located in Far North Queensland, Australia, covering large sections of the Torres Strait Islands and the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula north of 11°S latitude.

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States and territories of Australia

The states and territories are the second level of government of Australia.

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Suburbs and localities (Australia)

Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia, used mainly for address purposes.

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Thursday Island

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. Horn Island, Queensland and Thursday Island are Aboriginal communities in Queensland, islands of Far North Queensland, Populated places in Far North Queensland, Shire of Torres, Torres Strait Islands, Torres Strait Islands communities and towns in Queensland.

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Time in Australia

Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30) and Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00).

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Torres Strait

The Torres Strait, also known as Zenadh Kes (ˈzen̪ad̪ kes), is a strait between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.

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Torres Strait Islands

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 Guinea. Horn Island, Queensland and Torres Strait Islands are Aboriginal communities in Queensland and islands of Far North Queensland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_Island,_Queensland

Also known as Horn Island (Queensland), Horn Island, Torres Strait, Horn, Queensland, Narupai Island, Wasaga, Wasaga, Queensland.

Horn Island, Queensland, the Glossary

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See also

Aboriginal communities in Queensland

Shire of Torres

Torres Strait Islands

Torres Strait Islands communities

References