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Thursday Island (1991 pop. 2,652), Queensland, NE Australia, N of Cape York Peninsula, in Torres Strait. It is the administrative and commercial center of the Torres Strait Islands. Thursday Island an island in Torres Strait, between NE Australia and New Guinea: administratively part of Queensland, Australia. Area: 4 sq. km (1.5 sq. miles) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| There are challenges for teaching staff too, but JCU School of Nursing has substantial expertise in multicampus delivery of its undergraduate degree, with approximately 700 internal students spread across campuses at Townsville, Cairns, Mt Isa and Thursday Island, and a group of external students. He began a course of oral quinine for suspected malaria but remained ill and was transferred to Thursday Island Hospital. Japanese activity in the colonies of Papua and New Guinea was embodied by Komine Isokichi, an adventurous entrepreneur who was squeezed out of the Thursday Island pearl diving industry in Queensland and travelled northeast to find new shell fishing grounds. |
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