Thursday Island
Thursday Island is the administrative and main population centre of the Torres Strait Islands. It has developed visitor facilities, with supermarkets, a few accommodation options, a restaurant or two, souvenirs, and decent espresso.- Type: Town with 2,810 residents
- Description: island in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Ile Thursday”, “Ostrov Thursday”, “Thursday Island, Queensland”, “Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia”, “Torsdagö”, “Wai-ben Island”, “Waiben”, “Waiben Island”, “Waibene Island”, “서스데이섬”, “サーズデー・アイランド”, “サーズデイ・アイランド”, “もくようとう”, and “禮拜四島”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Green Hill Fort and Thursday Island Cemetery.
Thursday Island
- Categories: island, suburb/locality of Australia, and locality
- Location: Shire of Torres, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-10.5844° or 10° 35′ 4″ south
Longitude
142.2193° or 142° 13′ 10″ east
Population
2,810
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
UN/LOCODE
AU TIS
Open location code
5RX4C689+6P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Yue Chinese—“Thursday Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Cümə axşamı adası, Kvinslend”
- Azerbaijani: “Cümə axşamı adası”
- Belarusian: “Тэрсды”
- Cebuano: “Thursday Island”
- Chinese: “星期四岛”
- Czech: “Thursday”
- Danish: “Thursday Island”
- Dutch: “Thursday Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ثورسداى ايسلاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ثورسداى”
- Esperanto: “Ĵaŭdinsulo”
- Finnish: “Torstaisaari”
- French: “île Thursday”
- French: “Île Thursday”
- German: “Thursday Island”
- Hebrew: “אי יום חמישי”
- Indonesian: “Thursday Island”
- Italian: “Thursday Island”
- Japanese: “木曜島”
- Korean: “목요섬”
- Korean: “서스데이 섬”
- Literary Chinese: “星期四島”
- Malagasy: “Thursday Island”
- Malay: “Pulau Thursday”
- Polish: “Wyspa Thursday”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Thursday”
- Russian: “Терсди”
- Slovenian: “Thursday Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Thursday”
- Swedish: “Torsdagsön”
- Turkish: “Thursday Adası, Queensland”
- Turkish: “Thursday Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Терсді”
- Urdu: “تھرسڈے آئی لینڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “星期四岛”
- Yue Chinese: “他士爹島”
- Yue Chinese: “星期四島”
- “Thursday Island”
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