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Torres Strait Inhabited Islands (TSRA)

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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This dataset shows the point location of communities on Torres Strait Islands. There are 18 Islands in the Torres Strait and 19 Communities. St Pauls and Kubin villages are both located on Moa Island. Each point includes an URL attribute pointing to the community pages on the TSRA website. The Island Communities are: Boigu Island, Warraber Island, Ugar Island, Thursday Island, Saibai Island, Poruma Island, Prince of Wales Island, Mer Island, Masig Island, Mabuiag Island, Iama Island, Horn Island, Hammond Island, Erub Island, Dauan Island, Badu Island, St Pauls, Moa Island, Kubin, Moa Island The dataset is a point shapefile, created in ArcGIS Version 10.0. Data Dictionary:

URL: URL to the community page for the island on the TSRA website. Region: Region within Torres Strait (Northern islands, Central islands, Eastern islands, Southern islands, Western islands) from the Torres Strait Island Regional Council. Pop2011: Population of each island from the 2011 census.

Data Location: This dataset is filed in the eAtlas enduring data repository at: data\TSRA\TS_TSRA_Inhabited-Islands_2014 Change Log:

V2 21-03-2016 (Eric Lawrey, AIMS): Added Regions and population statistics.

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Title Torres Strait Inhabited Islands (TSRA)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/b7dc239c-7f74-48aa-88cf-a6587eae9e01
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Melanie.STEWART@tsra.gov.au
Reference Period 18/09/2023
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        142.145066,
        -10.684769
      ],
      [
        144.051391,
        -10.684769
      ],
      [
        144.051391,
        -9.265521
      ],
      [
        142.145066,
        -9.265521
      ],
      [
        142.145066,
        -10.684769
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Torres Strait Inhabited Islands (TSRA)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/torres-strait-inhabited-islands-tsra1