Halfway Island (Queensland)

Halfway Island
Geography
Satellite image of Halfway Island (top) and Kodnasem Reef
A map of the Torres Strait Islands showing Masig in the north-eastern waters of Torres Strait
Location	Northern Australia
Coordinates	10°6′50″S 143°19′34″E / 10.11389°S 143.32611°E / -10.11389; 143.32611Coordinates: 10°6′50″S 143°19′34″E / 10.11389°S 143.32611°E / -10.11389; 143.32611
Archipelago	Torres Strait Islands
Adjacent bodies of water	Torres Strait
Country
Australia
State	Queensland

Halfway Island is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago located approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) northeast of Thursday Island in the Cumberland Passage of Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. Halfway Island is about 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Yule Entrance.^[1]

Shipwrecks

Governor Ready. Wooden ship, 512 tons. Built Prince Edward Island 1825. Captain John Young. Wrecked on a reef between Murray and Halfway Islands north-east of Cape York, May 1829. Nineteen in the longboat, twelve in a skiff and eight in the jolly boat escaped from the wreck and after touching at various uninhabited islands, were rescued by the brig Amity off Timor. They had travelled 2500 km in fourteen days. The Governor Ready had brought 200 convicts from England in 1828, and had sailed from Sydney for Batavia on 18 March 1829, when lost.

References

↑ "Map 7: South East Torres Strait" (PDF). Retrieved 17 October 2009.

List of Torres Strait topics

Torres Strait Islands,
islets, and cays

Bellevue group	Aipus Cap Kamutnab Keatinge Mabuiag Pulu Subur Warakuikul Talab Widul

Bourke group	Aukane Aureed Kabbikane Layoak Mimi Roberts Yam

Duncan group	Kanig Maitak Meth

Inner group	Port Lihou Yeta

Manar group	Albany Bush Eborac Ida Middle Brother

Talbot group	Aubussi Boigu Moimi

The Three Sisters group	Bet Poll Sue

Yorke group	Keats Marsden Rennel Smith

Ungrouped	Allison Anchor Arden Badu Barn Barney Bond Booby Bramble Browne Campbell Canoe Castle Coconut Crab Dalrymple Darnley Dauan Dayman Deliverance Dove Dugong Dumaralug East East Strait Entrance Farewell Flat Friday Gabba Getullai Goods Great Woody Green Halfway Hammond Hawkesbury High Horn Kaumag Kerr Lacey Little Adolphus Little Woody Lowry Mai Meddler Moa Morilug Mouinndo Mount Adolphus Mount Ernest Murangi Murray Nepean Nicklin North North Possession North West Obelisk Packe Passage Pearce Phipps Portlock Prince of Wales Quoin Red Red Wallis Roko Saddle Saibai Salter Sassie Spencer Stephens Suarji Thursday Tobin Travers Tree Trochus Tudu Tukupai Turnagain Turtle Head Turtle Turu Twin Underdown Wednesday West Whale Woody Wallis York Yorke Zagai

People, culture,
communities and
languages

Notable Torres Strait islanders	Christine Anu Seaman Dan Aaron Fa'aoso Josh Hoffman Nathan Jawai Ellen Jose Robert Lui Eddie Mabo Rachael Maza Long Patty Mills Rita Mills Mills Sisters Danny Morseu Tanu Nona Albert Proud Wendell Sailor Sam Thaiday Brent Webb Jesse Williams

Culture	Indigenous Australian music Mabo (film) Taba Naba

Communities	Bamaga Kaurareg Mabuiag Meriam (people) Seisia

Languages	Bine Eastern Trans-Fly Gizrra Kalaw Lagaw Ya Meriam Torres Strait Creole Torres Strait English Wipi

Governance and
legal matters

Governance	Shire of Torres Torres Strait Islander Flag Torres Strait Island Region Torres Strait Regional Authority

Legal cases and principles	Akiba v Commonwealth Mabo v Queensland (No 1) Mabo v Queensland (No 2) Terra nullius

Buildings and structures

Other

Category

Commons See also: List of Torres Strait Islands

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