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List of Torres Strait Islands

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ1864616 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

This is a list of the named islands and island groups in the Torres Strait. In addition there are unnamed islands and named and unnamed rocks.

Almost all of the islands in the Torres Strait are part of Australia; consequently all entries in this table are in Australia unless noted as being in Papua New Guinea.

Table of islands

References

External links

Torres Strait Atlas

Further reading

Gadke, Christopher (2001). The architecture of the Torres Strait Islands : from the vernacular to the 'South Sea' type [St.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Torres Strait Islands” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.