1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Thursday Island

←

Thurman, Allen Granbery

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 26

Thursday Island

Thurso

→

sister projects: Wikipedia article, travel guide, Wikidata item

See also Thursday Island on Wikipedia; and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer.

19445911911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 26 — Thursday Island

THURSDAY ISLAND, one of the smallest of the Prince of Wales group, N. of Cape York, in the Torres Strait, attached to Somerset county, Queensland, Australia. Pop. (1901), 1534. It has an excellent harbour, Port Kennedy, and is a port of call for mail steamers and the centre of the bêche-de-mer and pearl fisheries of the Torres Strait. It is a fortified coaling station for the British navy. The neighbouring Friday Island is the quarantine and leper station for Queensland.