Badu Island
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| Waters | Torres Strait (Pacific Ocean) |
| Archipelago | Torres Strait Islands |
| Geographical location | 10 ° 8 ′ S , 142 ° 9 ′ E |
| length | 10.2 km |
| width | 9.9 km |
| surface | 97.8 km² |
| Highest elevation | Mulgrave Peak 181 m |
| Residents | 818 (2006) 8.4 inhabitants / km² |
| main place | Badu |
 Badu Island in the center of the picture, left. |
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Badu Island , also known as Mulgrave Island , is a centrally located island in the west of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago . It is only separated from its neighboring island of Moa by a three-kilometer-wide waterway ( Banks Channel ).
Administratively, both islands belong to the Western Islands , an island region in the Torres Shire administrative district of the Australian state of Queensland .
Badu Island is the fourth largest of the Torres Strait Islands after Prince of Wales Island , Moa Island and Saibai with an area of 97.8 km² . The main settlement Badu is on the southwest coast; after the census of 2006 818 people lived on the island; In 2001 there were 690.