Yorke Island
| Yorke Island (Masig) |
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean |
| Archipelago | Yorke Islands |
| Geographical location | 9 ° 45 '26 " S , 143 ° 24' 45" O |
| length | 2.7 km |
| width | 800 m |
| surface | 1.62 km² |
| Highest elevation | 4 m |
| Residents | 300 (2006) 185 inhabitants / km² |
 Yorke Island (Masig) center, right. |
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Yorke Island , called Masig by the locals , is a small coral island in the northeast of the Torres Strait Islands . It is located about 160 km northeast of Thursday Island , the "main island" in Torres Strait.
The flat, lush island has an area of 162 hectares . It lies together with the smaller Kodall Islet two kilometers to the east on the same 7.6 km long reef platform, which has an area of 13.27 km².
Yorke Island is inhabited and has a 800-meter paved runway for small aircraft. The only settlement is in the east of Yorke Island; after the census of 2006 lived there 300 people, slightly more than in 2001 (293).
Administratively, Yorke belongs to the Central Islands , an island region in the Torres Shire administrative district of the Australian state of Queensland .
See also
Web links
- Website of the Torres Strait Regional Authority ( Memento from 15 August 2012 at the Internet Archive ) ( Engl. )