Thursday Island & Horn Island
The superb Gab Titui Cultural Centre, near the ferry dock on Thursday Island, houses a contemporary gallery displaying the cultural history of the Torres…
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Thursday Island & Horn Island
Thursday and Horn Islands are the most visited of the remote Torres Strait Islands, Australia’s most northerly frontier. The archipelago consists of more than 100 islands stretching like stepping stones for 150km from the tip of Cape York Peninsula to Papua New Guinea.
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Must-see attractions
Thursday Island & Horn Island
Fascinating educational tours revealing the island's significant and all-but-forgotten military history, including fixed gun sites and aircraft wrecks,…
Thursday Island & Horn Island
The highest point on Thursday Island, Green Hill is home to the well-preserved remains of a 19th-century fort, built in 1891 in preparation for a possible…
Thursday Island & Horn Island
This heritage-listed cemetery includes the graves of more than 600 Japanese pearl divers and a memorial erected by the Japanese consulate in 1979. Look…
All Souls & St Bartholomew Memorial Church
Thursday Island & Horn Island
Built in 1893 in memory of the 134 lives that were lost when the Quetta struck an uncharted reef and sank within three minutes. Inside is memorabilia from…
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