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Torres Strait   /tˈɔrˌɛz streɪt/   Listen
Torres Strait

noun
1.
A strait between northeastern Australia and southern New Guinea that connects the Coral Sea with the Arafura Sea.





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"Torres Strait" Quotes from Famous Books



... An expedient used by the natives in Torres Strait, on the northern coast of Australia, for getting water, may here be noticed, both for its simplicity and cleverness. "Long slips of bark are tied round the smooth stems of a tree called the pandanus, and the loose ...
— Australia, its history and present condition • William Pridden
... East Coast from the I. of Direction to Cape York, and of the North Coast from thence to Pera Head; including Torres Strait and parts of ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders
... and Kanakas and Torres Strait islanders, on the other hand, bring all the money they do not spend on the pearling schooner to the island, and "blow it in", like men. They knife each other sometimes, and now and again have to be run in wholesale, but they are ...
— Three Elephant Power • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson


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