Legal fight to save their island homes from the rising sea
Singer Christine Anu has thrown her support behind a legal bid to save her ancestral island home in the Torres Strait from the..
Sydney Morning Herald
Torres Strait
Navigable sea passage between Australia and New Guinea
The Torres Strait, also known as Zenadh Kes, is a strait between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea. It is 150 km (93 mi) wide at its narrowest extent. To the south is Cape York Peninsula, the northernmost extremity of the Australian mainland. To the north is the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. It is named after the Spanish navigator Luís Vaz de Torres, who sailed through the strait in 1606.
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