Thursday Island, one of the smallest of the group of the Torres Straits islands, north of Cape York, and belonging to Queensland. It has an excellent harbour, Port Kennedy, which is a telegraph station, and a station for several lines of steamers. The island is a centre of the pearl and trepang fisheries.
Thursday Island,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 195
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