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unusual facts about Thursday Island


Ivor McIntyre

They flew anticlockwise along the eastern coast to Thursday Island, crossed the Gulf of Carpentaria to Darwin, then continued along the Western Australian and South Australian coasts.


James Cook University School of Medicine and Dentistry

Students will study the first three to four years on the Cairns Campus, and will spend the final year developing their clinical skills on placements in public and private dental clinics across northern Queensland, including Mackay, Proserpine, Atherton, and Thursday Island.

Japanese settlement in Papua New Guinea

The first recorded Japanese presence in German New Guinea dates back to the beginning of the 20th century when a pearl diver, Isokichi Komine from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait Islands relocated to Rabaul in October 1901.

Operation Jaywick

In mid-1943, the Krait travelled from a training camp at Broken Bay, New South Wales to Thursday Island.

Rosalind Baker

When Rosalind was eight years of age her family moved to Thursday Island where her father operated a fleet of pearling luggers.

Territory of Papua

In 1883 Sir Thomas McIlwraith, the Premier of Queensland, ordered Henry Chester (1832–1914), the Police Magistrate on Thursday Island to proceed to Port Moresby and annex New Guinea and adjacent islands in the name of the British government.


see also

RMS Quetta

As a memorial to the lives lost on the Quetta, the Quetta Memorial Precinct was established on Thursday Island, comprising a church (later a cathedral), a rectory and a church hall.