The Torres Strait Islanders are indigenous to the Torres Strait Islands, which are at the northernmost tip of Queensland near Papua New Guinea.

The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands which lie in Torres Strait, the waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea.

Indigenous Australians is an inclusive term used when referring to both Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders.

It is named after navigator Luis Vaz de Torres who passed through the Strait in 1606.

Torres Strait is mentioned in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as a dangerous strait where the submarine, the Nautilus , is briefly stranded.

Since 1995, the Australian Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag have been among the official Flags of Australia .

Human use The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Aboriginal Australians have been living in the area for at least 40,000 years, and Torres Strait Islanders since about 10,000 years ago.

The two landmasses became separated when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the end of the last glacial period.

Although some of the Torres Strait islands lie just off the coast of New Guinea, they were annexed in 1879 by Queensland, then a British colony.

The Indigenous population Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders was counted at 548,370 (2.5 of the total population) in 2011, a significant increase from 115,953 in the 1976 census.

Fernando Torres may also refer to Fernando Torres (actor) (1927 2008), Brazilian actor Fernando Torres de Portugal y Mesía, 16th century viceroy Fernando Torres Graciano (born 1970), Mexican politician Fernando Llorente Torres, Spanish footballer

Torres Fontes, J.

Torres Moreal, Francisco.

The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality.

They traveled via Baffin Bay, the Parry Channel and then south through Peel Sound, James Ross Strait, Simpson Strait and Rae Strait.

TORRES RODRÍGUEZ, Casimiro, Paulo Orosio.

Strait of Gibraltar crossing

The Taiwan Strait or Formosa Strait, also known as the Black Ditch (), is a wide strait separating the island of Taiwan from the Asian mainland.

The Denmark Strait or Greenland Strait (, , the latter meaning Greenland Sound) is an oceanic strait between Iceland (to its southeast) and Greenland (to its northwest).

Torres Penaranda, A.V., et al.1998.

2008, Torres Vedras (Portugal), p. 5.

He has a younger half brother, Robert Torres, from his mother's marriage to Moises Torres Furlong's former stepfather.

They accelerate in the Korea Strait (40 60 cm s), La Pérouse Strait (50 100 cm s) and especially in the Tsugaru Strait (100 200 cm s).

The Korea Strait is composed of the Western Channel and the Tsushima Strait, on either side of Tsushima Island.

Geography The Arafura Sea is bordered by Torres Strait and through that the Coral Sea to the east, the Gulf of Carpentaria to the south, the Timor Sea to the west and the Banda and Ceram seas to the northwest.

You can follow Arely Torres Miranda on Twitter.

Further reading Torres Carvajal, Etheridge de Queiroz 2011.

Netizens are sharing reports and reacting to the news through salvemostorresdelpaine (let's save Torres del Paine) and 'Torres del Paine' on Twitter.

The most recent is La Perouse Strait.

I live at 517, das Torres Street, Madrid, Spain.

I live at 517, das Torres Street, Madrid, Spain.

Some of the best Brazilian surfers are from Torres.

D. José (III) da Costa Torres (1784 1796) 19.

Personal life Torres' parents are José Torres and Flori Sanz, and he has two older siblings, Israel (born 1977) and María Paz (born 1976).

The tides are semi diurnal (rise twice a day) in the Korea Strait and in the northern part of the Strait of Tartary.

The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait ( , literally , ) or Straat van Dover is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and North Sea, separating Great Britain from continental Europe.

At the age of 19, Torres was named Atlético's captain.

The Min and Jiulong rivers empty into the strait.

Bali and Java are separated by the Bali Strait.

The sea has complex tides, which are induced by the tidal wave of the Pacific Ocean penetrating through the Korea Strait and Tsugaru strait.

The lyrics of Culpadus (Guilty) by Torres Gémeos (2008) condemn narcotrafficking

The island fishermen use the strait as a fishing resource.

The KMT considers both sides of the Taiwan Strait, i.e.

It is connected to other seas by five straits the Strait of Tartary between the Asian mainland and Sakhalin La Pérouse Strait between the islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaidō the Tsugaru Strait between the islands of Hokkaidō and Honshū the Kanmon Straits between the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū and the Korea Strait between the Korean Peninsula and the island of Kyūshū.