Thursday Island
Facts
19 properties- Instance of
- island, suburb/locality of Australia[6]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ -10.579°, 142.220°[12]
- Area
- +3.50
- Described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16][17]
- Elevation above sea level
- +104[23]
- Female population
- +1507[20]
- Length
- +2.7[22]
- Located in or next to body of water
- Torres Strait[5]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Shire of Torres, Queensland[2][3]
- Located in/on physical feature
- Torres Strait Islands[13]
- Male population
- +1437[21]
- Postal code
- 4875[9]
- Width
- +1.3
- VIAF cluster ID
- 245833668
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Thursday-Island
- Freebase ID
- /m/02xwtn
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -1604681
- GeoNames ID
- 2146681
- Harper's tag
- thursday-island
- Museum-digital place ID
- 74535
- NDL Authority ID
- 01007758
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- NL CR AUT ID
- ge131073
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 3687460
- Queensland place ID
- 27349
- Quora topic ID
- Thursday-Island
- Topic's main category
- Category:Thursday Island
- UN/LOCODE
- AUTIS
- Yale LUX ID
- place/8ae4a9ab-8b66-4fe3-b32e-b08bd908d000
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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Instance of 2
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
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Summary
Thursday Island is an island[1].
Body
Geography
Located in include Shire of Torres[2], a local government area of Queensland[24], in Australia[25] and Queensland[3], a state of Australia[26], in Australia[27], founded in 1859[28]. Part of include Torres Strait Islands[10], an island group[29], in Australia[30] and Thursday Islands[11], an island group[31], in Australia[32].
Physical Characteristics
Thursday Island covers an area of {'amount': '+3.50'}[33].