Torres Strait Islanders

The Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, Queensland, Australia. They have a Melanesian culture and are not related to the Aborigines.

Population

There are 6,800 Torres Strait Islanders who live near the Torres Strait, plus 42,000 more, mostly in the north of Queensland, for example in Townsville or Cairns, live.

Culture

The Torres Strait Islanders have a distinctive culture which was heavily influenced by their habitat, the Torres Strait Islands. They are a nation of seafarers and trade with the people of Papua New Guinea. In contrast to living on the Australian mainland Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanders also operate agriculture, which they supplement by hunting and gathering.

Known Torres Strait Islander

The most famous Torres Strait Islanders is made ​​Eddie Mabo, the story, when he was in the 1990s, the granting of land rights for all indigenous Australians reached (see Mabo v. Queensland (No. 2) ) and thus the previously dominant legal principle cast of Terra Nullius to the ground.

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