- Mabuiag Island
Mabuiag Island (aka "Mabuyag Island", also formerly "Jervis Island") is an
island in theBellevue Islands , 100km North of Thursday IslandQueensland ,Australia in theNapoleon Passage andArnolds Passage Torres Strait .This island is one of the
Torres Strait Islands , originally named by Captain William Bligh, "Jervis Island", and so labelled on early English language maps [ [http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/property/placenames/detail.php?id=20345 Queensland Place Names entry on Mabuiag Island] Accessed 9 May 2008]History
The "Footprints before me - Torres Strait Island Missions and Communities" webpage tells the following history of Mabuiag Island and the people living there [ [http://publib.slq.qld.gov.au/footprints/communities/torresmap.htm#mabuiag Mabuiag Island mission history from State Library of Queensland website] ]
"The
Mabuiag people had a reputation for hostility to outsiders until their acceptance of Christianity in the early 1870s. In1877 the mission moved to Bau where the water supply was better. Later, the missionaries persuaded the people to join them at Bau, which became the main settlement. By1898 , Mabuiag people were labouring on pearling luggers for wages, while many followed work to Thursday Island and further to the mainland. An official presence on Mabuiag began during the mid-1920s when Queensland Government posted teachers there. An Island Industries Board store opened in1946 "ee also
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Mabuiag Island Airport
*Mabuiag people External links
* [http://www.tsra.gov.au/the-torres-strait/community-profiles/mabuiag.aspx Mabuiag Island Profile from Torres Strait Regional Authority website] Accessed 7 May 2008
* [http://publib.slq.qld.gov.au/footprints/communities/torresmap.htm#mabuiag Mabuiag Island mission history from State Library of Queensland website] accessed 7 May 2008
* [http://www.atns.net.au/biogs/A000700b.htm Mabuiag Island Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) (24 May 2001)]
* [http://www.atns.net.au/biogs/A000179b.htm Mabuiag People v State of Queensland (2000(( FCA 1065 (6 July 2000)]References
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