Layoak Island
| Layoak Island (Yau) |
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|---|---|
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean |
| Archipelago | Bourke Islands |
| Geographical location | 9 ° 51 '47 " S , 143 ° 18' 30" E |
| length | 600 m |
| width | 200 m |
| surface | 9 ha |
| Highest elevation | 2 m |
| Residents | uninhabited |
Layoak Island , also known as Layoak Islet , is a small, densely forested coral island in the northeast of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago . The uninhabited island is 600 meters long and 200 meters wide and is located in the northwest of a reef platform . It has a land area of nine hectares . The highest point is two meters above sea level.
The island is located nine kilometers west of Aukane Island and ten kilometers north of Roberts Island , the westernmost of the Bourke Islands , which administratively belong to the Central Islands , an island region in the Torres Shire administrative district of the Australian state of Queensland .
Layoak, like most of the rest of the Bourke Islands (except for the southwestern Aureed Island and Roberts Island ) traditionally belongs to the residents of Yorke Island, 13 kilometers northwest . In their language, Kalaw Lagaw Ya , Layoak Island is called Yau .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ au.geoview.info
- ↑ Torres Strait communities , tsra.gov.au: There are none of the Torres Strait communities on Layoak Island , so the island is uninhabited
- ↑ Torres Strait Atlas ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , cmar.csiro.au
- ↑ Map , on lib.utexas.edu: 7 feet according to map
- ↑ Regional Ecosystem / Vegetation Mapping survey - Torres Strait Islands , tsra.gov.au (pdf).
- ↑ Map with borders of the island regions (second following page, on nma.gov.au)
- ↑ Prescribed Bodies Directory , July 2014 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , tsra.gov.au
