The Three Sisters (Torres Strait)

The Three Sisters
Landsat picture of the group From North to South: Bet Island, Sue Island and Poll Island.
Waters	Pacific Ocean
archipelago	Torres Strait Islands
Geographical location	10 ° 13 ′  S , 142 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 10 ° 13 ′  S , 142 ° 50 ′  E
Number of islands	4th
Main island	Sue Island
Total land area	1.18 km²
Residents	247 (2006)
Location of the Torres Strait Islands

The Three Sisters (German: The Three Sisters ) refer to a small group of islands in the east of the Australian Torres Strait Islands .

The islands are about 100 km northeast of Thursday Island , the main island in Torres Strait .

Only Sue Island ( Warraber ), the middle one of the "sisters", is inhabited. It has a runway for small aircraft that is almost 1,000 meters long .

Table of the islands

The archipelago includes:

island	Alias	location	Area km²	Residents	Geographic coordinates
Bet Island 1)	Burrar	north	0.26	uninhabited	10 ° 09 ′  S , 142 ° 49 ′  E
Sue Island	Warrabers	center	0.80	247	10 ° 12 ′  S , 142 ° 50 ′  E
Poll Island	Guijar	south	0.11	uninhabited	10 ° 15 ′  S , 142 ° 50 ′  E
Vin Islet 1)		Northeast	0.01	uninhabited	10 ° 09 ′  S , 142 ° 55 ′  E

¹⁾ Bet Island and Vin Islet are located on the same 28.7 km² reef platform Bet Islet Reef in the west and east, around 11 km apart.

Administratively, the islands are part of the Central Islands , an island region in the Torres Shire county of Queensland .

See also

• List of Torres Strait Islands