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Horn Island is known as Nœrupai (colloquially Nurupai or Nguruapai) to the Kaurareg people and was given its English name by Matthew Flinders in 1802. [5] [6]The town of Wasaga was named on 1 April 1971 by the Queensland Place Names Board after Wasaga Billy, the first leader of the Horn Island community.
Horn Island Airport (IATA: HID, ICAO: YHID) is a minor international airport on Horn Island in the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia.Domestic fixed wing charter flights and scheduled flights are carried out by SkyTrans, Hinterland Aviation, Cape Air Transport, Horizon Airways, and Torres Strait Air.
The history of Queensland encompasses both a long Aboriginal Australian presence as well as the more recent periods of European colonisation and as a state of Australia. [1] Before being charted and claimed for the Kingdom of Great Britain by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770, the coast of north-eastern Australia was explored by Dutch and French ...
Climate data for Thursday Island was sourced from Horn Island, which is 8.7 km ENE of Thursday Island. Thursday Island has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen: Aw), with a wet season from December to April and a dry season from May to November. Temperatures remain hot year-round, with average maxima ranging from 29.0 °C (84.2 °F) in July to ...
This was the largest native title claim in Australia's history. [9] The Torres Strait Territory Coalition was formed in 2010, by the elected leaders of the Torres Strait Island Regional Council, the Torres Strait Regional Authority and the Torres Shire Council, with the aim of gaining official Territory status for the Torres Strait Islands. The ...
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Horizon Airways is an Australian aviation company, providing both flight training and air charter flights in Central, Western and Northern Queensland.. Horizon Airways was founded by Trish Mahlberg in 1994 at Mackay Airport. [1]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... Horn Island may refer to: Horn Island (Mississippi), United States; Horn Island, Queensland, Australia ...