Yam Island
| Yam Island (Iama) |
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean |
| Geographical location | 9 ° 54 '3 " S , 142 ° 46' 27" O |
| length | 2.3 km |
| width | 1.2 km |
| surface | 1.73 km² |
| Highest elevation | 160 m |
| Residents | 311 (2006) 180 inhabitants / km² |
 Yam Island roughly in the middle of the picture, left. |
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Yam Island , also called Iama , is an island in the center of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago . It is 65 kilometers from the south coast of Papua New Guinea and 95 kilometers from the north coast of Australia .
Administratively, it belongs to the Central Islands , an island region in the Torres Shire administrative district of the Australian state of Queensland .
The 173 hectare hilly island is surrounded by a fringing reef . In the middle of the island, an 800-meter-long runway for small aircraft was created. The only settlement is on the west coast; according to the 2006 census , 311 people live on Yam Island . In 2001 there were 338.
See also
Web links
- Aerial photograph of the island ( Memento from June 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Website Torres Strait Regional Authority (Yam Iceland) ( Engl. )