The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Public Health Journal

Ngurupai (Horn) Island

The aim of this page is to gather information freely available on the Internet about Ngurupai (Horn) Island, Torres Straits, Australia.

• Google Images - Horn Island
  Google Images of Horn Island
  http://www.google.com.au/images?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1C1CHMZ_enAU366&tbs=&q=horn+island+australia&revid=518595923&ei=mjTJS9jqLc2HkAXo9p2kCQ&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&resnum=0&ct=broad-revision&cd=1&start=0
  
  
• Ngurupai (Horn) Island
  Torres Strait Regional Authority - Community Profiles - Horn Island.
  http://www.tsra.gov.au/the-torres-strait/community-profiles/horn.aspx
  
  
• Wikipedia - Horn Island, Queensland
  Horn Island (Narupai [Nœrupai/Nurupai]) (10°36′S 142°17′E / 10.6°S 142.283°E / -10.6; 142.283) is an island in the Torres Strait, in Queensland's north between the Australian mainland and Papua New Guinea....
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_Island,_Queensland
  
  
• Wikipedia - Horn Island Airport
  Horn Island Airport (IATA: HID,ICAO: YHID) is an airport in Horn Island, Queensland, Australia. The Torres Strait Heritage Museum is located at the airport.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_Island_Airport
  
  
• JAPANESE BOMBING RAID ON HORN ISLAND 14 MARCH 1942
  In the late morning of 14 March 1942, coast watchers on the southern shores of New Guinea in the village of Kerema, just west of Port Moresby, radioed RAAF Thursday Island that they had seen a large formation ...
  http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/horn01.htm
  
  
• Horn Island - Apunipima website
  Horn Island is known as Nurapai to the Muralag / Kaurareg People. After the 1871 massacre on Prince of Wales Islands (Muralag) remnants of the people settled here for a short while until the government relocated the Muralag people to Hammond Island (Keriri) where they remained until 1922....
  http://www.apunipima.org.au/index.php?page=horn-island
  
  
• Torres Shire Council - Horn Island
  Horn Island, with an area of 53 square kilometres, consists mainly of vacant Crown land. The Aerodrome occupies 6 square kilometres. On the eastern side of the island is a Gold mine, which ...
  http://www.torres.qld.gov.au/tourism/HornIsland.shtml
  
  
• Horn Island Information
  Horn Island Video Travel Guide. Find videos, information, maps and quality photos around Horn Island, Tropical North Queensland
  http://www.pleasetakemeto.com/australia/horn-island/information
  
  
• Tagai State College - Horn Island Campus
  Situated in the Inner Islands of the Torres Strait, Horn Campus provides education to approximately 145 boys and girls from Pre-prep to Year 7. Our school services the communities of Horn Island and Thursday Island.
  http://tagaisc.eq.edu.au/wcmss/index.php/horn_island_campus.html
  
  
• Wongai Beach Resort
  Horn Island
  ● The first stop on your Torres Strait adventure
  ● Horn Island boasts the busiest regional airport in Australia ...
  http://www.wongaibeachresort.bigpondhosting.com/hornisland.html
  
  
• Mount Isa Centre for Rural and Remote Health
  Horn Island
  Population 650 (Wiki). Part of the Torres Shires total population of 3,516 (2006 census).
  http://www.micrrh.jcu.edu.au/Our-Region/horn-island.html
  
  
• RAAF Museum - RAAF Base Horn Island
  An important base for aircraft staging between Australia and New Guinea, construction of an airfield at Horn Island was completed in 1941....
  http://www.airforce.gov.au/raafmuseum/research/bases/horn_island.htm
  
  
• Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements Project
  Kaurareg / Ergon Energy Electricity Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA)
  The area covered by the ILUA is the area above the high water mark on: Ngurupai (Horn Island); Murulag (Prince of Wales Island); Zuna (Entrance Island); Damaralag (Dumuralug Islet); Mipa (Pipa Islet and also known as Turtle Island); Tarilag (Packe Island); and Yeta (Port Lihou Island).
  http://www.atns.net.au/agreement.asp?EntityID=803
  
  
• Information update on Kaurareg negotiations
  The National Native Title Tribunal today invited Torres Strait residents to information updates on the Kaurareg native title applications.
  http://www.nntt.gov.au/News-and-Communications/Media-Releases/Pages/Information_update_on_Kaurareg_negotiati.aspx
  
  
• Chance to have a say in five Kaurareg native title applications
  The Ngurrapai application for parts of Horn Island, the Muralug # 1 and #2 applications for land on Prince of Wales, the application for Zuna (Entrance Island) and the Dumaralug application for areas of Dumaralag, Turtle, Packe and Port Lihou have now been accepted for mediation by the Tribunal.
  http://www.nntt.gov.au/News-and-Communications/Media-Releases/Pages/Chance_to_have_a_say_in_five_Kaurareg_na.aspx
  
  
• NLA - The Kaurareg people's native title determinations...
  The Kaurareg people's native title determinations : questions and answers / National Native Title Tribunal
  Bib ID 1147665
  Format Book, Online
  Online Versions Access electronic version
  Description Cairns, Qld. : National Native Title Tribunal, c2001.
  12 p. [6] leaves of plates : col. maps ; 30 cm.
  ISBN 0642262071  064226208X (Online)
  http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1147665
  
  
• Native title recognition of CMT  and the implications for the GBRMPA  and future management of marine areas
  Native title recognition of CMT and the implications for the GBRMPA and future management of marine areas
  by Julie Lahn
  Doctoral candidate, Dept, of Anthropology & Archaeology
  James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia.
  http://www.spc.int/coastfish/News/Trad/9/Lahn.htm
  
  
• Horn Island, Queensland | Videomap the World in Video
  Australia Australia Queensland Wasaga - Horn Island is waiting for you to discover her....
  http://www.videomap.it/en/video.php?video=nM1qxKo6u9U&nome=Horn%20Island,%20Queensland
  
  
• Kaurareg People v State of Queensland - [2001] AILR 18; 6(2)pg41
  Native title determination — Native Title Act 1993 (Cth)— consent application — Kaurareg People — landward high water mark on islands of Kaurareg Archipelago in the Torres Strait
  http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AILR/2001/18.html
  
  
• Claimant application summary - Kaurareg People #2
  Application name: Kaurareg People #2
  Application type:  Claimant application
  State or Territory: Queensland
  http://www.nntt.gov.au/Applications-And-Determinations/Search-Applications/Pages/Application.aspx?tribunal_file_no=QC08/7