Torres Strait Islands
archipelago north of Australia
Facts
10 properties- Instance of
- island group
- Country
- Australia, Papua New Guinea[3][4]
- Part of
- Far North Queensland[6]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ -9.880°, 142.591°
- Area
- +566[10]
- Different from
- Torres Islands[9]
- Has part(s)
- Talbot Islands[7]
- Located in or next to body of water
- Torres Strait[5]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Queensland, Western Province[1][2]
- Population
- +7156[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Torres Strait Islands
ar جزر مضيق توريس
cs Ostrovy Torresova průlivu
de Torres Strait Islands
de Torres-Strait-Inseln
el Στενό Τόρες
es Islas del estrecho de Torres
fa جزایر تنگه تورس
fi Torresinsalmen saaret
fr Iles du detroit de Torres
fr Îles du Détroit de Torres
fr îles du détroit de Torrès
fr Torres Strait Islands
he איי מצר טורס
id Kepulauan Selat Torres
ja トレス海峡諸島
ko 토레스 해협제도
ko 토러스 해협 제도
ko 토레스 해협 제도
nl Straat Torreseilanden
🔖 Identifiers · 21
- VIAF cluster ID
- 247337998
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh85136144
- GND ID
- 4320634-7
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- TorresStraitIslandsMap.png ↗
- AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID
- 50
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID
- 33480
- Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID
- 315011402
- BabelNet ID
- 03351860n
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Torres-Strait-Islands
- Freebase ID
- /m/02p3x_
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -1605417
Show all 21 identifiers +9
- GeoNames ID
- 2146208
- Grove Art Online ID
- T085738
- Joconde location ID
- T84-3602
- Namuwiki ID
- 토러스 해협 제도
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007541318305171
- Quora topic ID
- Torres-Strait-Islands
- Topic's main category
- Category:Torres Strait Islands
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJqqCxVfkRHkFQMRTWKDbd
- Yale LUX ID
- place/b0f418a1-d251-4ff3-ae74-77cce4798e82
⛏️ Lake Facts
· open-dataset statements via 4ort-mint
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Located in time zoneP421
Australia/Lindeman
2026-09-26
T/ISLS · AU
GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
as of 2026-09-26
where from?
- 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.
- Bronze
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- 4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
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.
🔗 Connections
Has these parts 20
Daru,
Thursday Island,
Daru Island,
Badu Island,
Moa Island,
Saibai Island,
Bramble Cay,
Dauan Island
+12 more
← Located in/on physical feature 6
Country 2
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Residents 2
Different from 1
Has part(s) 1
Located in or next to body of water 1
Located in this place 1
Named after 1
Part of 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Indigenous to 1
← Main subject 1
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