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Collision of the Steamer Guthrie with the Thursday Island Jetty
9 December 2019
The steamer Guthrie was built around 1884 and originally part of the Eastern and Australian…
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Queensland Places - Thursday Island - Andrew Jacobsen - An Act of Bravery Acknowledged
4 September 2018
On 4 August 1888, the Torres Strait Pilot and New Guinea Gazette reported on the…
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Queensland Places - Somerset - George Elphinstone Dalrymple
23 April 2018
George Elphinstone Dalrymple, as one of the early Police Magistrates at Somerset, has a prominent…
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Queensland Places - Thursday Island - Thursday Island Dramatic Society
19 March 2018
The Thursday Island community has always had access to a wide range of entertainment including…
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Queensland Places - Thursday Island - The naming of some of the main streets
16 November 2017
The area now comprising the central area of Thursday Island was originally called Port Kennedy,…
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Queensland Places - Thursday Island - Tattersall's Hotel
6 November 2017
Tattersall’s Hotel once stood in Victoria Parade, Thursday Island and would have been a well-known…
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