Halfway Island (Queensland)
- Halfway Island (Queensland)
Halfway Island is an island 150 km northeast of Thursday Island Queensland, Australia in the Cumberland Passage Torres Strait about 100 km west of Yule Entrance.
This island is one of the Torres Strait Islands.
hipwrecks
* "Governor Ready". Wooden ship, 512 tons. Built Prince Edward Island 1825. Captain John Young. Wrecked on a reef between Murray and Halfway Islands north-east of Cape York, May 1829. Nineteen in the longboat, twelve in a skiff and eight in the jolly boat escaped from the wreck and after touching at various uninhabited islands, were rescued by the brig Amity off Timor. They had travelled 2500 km in fourteen days. The Governor Ready had brought 200 convicts from England in 1828, and had sailed from Sydney for Batavia on 18 March 1829, when lost.
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