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Kaurareg (alt. Kauraraiga, plural Kauraraigalai, Kauraregale) is the name for one of the Indigenous Australian groups collectively known as Torres Strait...

Harbours Rivers and Islands situate upon the said coast". In 2001, the Kaurareg people successfully claimed native title rights over the island (and other...

census, Prince Of Wales had a population of 62 people. Most of the land has been returned to the Kaurareg people, who are the traditional residents on the...

Strait Islands of Australia and spent five years living with the local Kaurareg people. She was possibly the sole survivor of the November 1844 wreck of the...

Island is known as Nœrupai (colloquially Nurupai or Nguruapai) to the Kaurareg people and was given its English name by Matthew Flinders in 1802. The town...

and his successor, Frank Jardine, send native police out to punish Kaurareg people on Muralag (Prince of Wales Island), who were wrongly thought to have...

Island had a population of 261 people, of whom 253 (96.9%) identified as Indigenous Australians. The Kaurareg people know Hammond Island as Keriri and...

May 2001, the Kaurareg people have held the native title rights to most of the island. Yeta is the name given by the Muralag/Kaurareg people. Its English...

rescued by Torres Strait Islanders living on Prince of Wales Island, the Kaurareg people, with whom she lived for five years. Today, the strait is travelled...

murdered many Aboriginal people as a drover, led his troopers in massacres against the mainland Yadhaykenu people and the Kaurareg people of the Torres Strait...

early 1920s, the Queensland Government made the decision to remove the Kaurareg people from Hammond Island, publicly stating that their close proximity to...

York Peninsula. The original inhabitants of the Muralag islands, the Kaurareg people, shared some cultural characteristics with Cape York Aborigines and...

November 1844 and spent the next five years living with the local Kaurareg people. The ship was broken up at Chatham in January 1860. European and American...

area at the western extent of the forest may be associated with the Kaurareg people or with late 19th century Chinese market gardening. There is also a...

Prince of Wales Island. Booby Island is also known as Ngiangu by the Kaurareg people of the western Torres Strait, its traditional owners, named for the...

cutter named the Sperwer had been killed and their boat burnt by the Kaurareg people living on Muralag Island in the Torres Strait. Over the next 12 months...

northern town. The original inhabitants of the Muralag islands, the Kaurareg people, shared some cultural characteristics with Cape York Aborigines and...

Thomas Mayo (né Mayor, born c. 1978) is an Indigenous Australian (Kaurareg Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Australian human rights advocate and...

Torres Strait Islander heritage, including a great-grandmother of the Kaurareg people (the traditional owners of Possession Island, aka Bedanug), and a grandfather...

Friday). Ethno-linguistic groups include: Badu people, based on the central-west Badu island Kaurareg, lower Western Islanders, based on the Muralag (Prince...