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Mabuiag Island

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Mabuiag, also known as "Mabuyag" and natively "Mabuyaagi", formerly "Jervis Island") is one of the Torres Strait Islands in Queensland, Australia. Mabuiag is also a town and locality in the Torres Strait Island Region local government area.[3][4] In the 2021 census, the locality of Mabuiag Island had a population of 253 people.[5]

Mabuiag
Native name:
Mabuyaagi, Gœmu
Landsat image of the Bellevue Islands, with Mabuiag in the centre
Geography
LocationArafura Sea
ArchipelagoBellevue Islands
Total islands11
Administration
Australia
StateQueensland
Local government areaTorres Strait Island Region
Demographics
Population251 (2006)
Ethnic groupsMabuiag people
Mabuiag Island
Queensland
Mabuiag Island
Coordinates9°57′13″S 142°11′32″E / 9.9535°S 142.1922°E / -9.9535; 142.1922 (Mabuiag Island (town centre))
Population253 (SAL 2021)[1][2]
Postcode(s)4875
Area6.3 km2 (2.4 sq mi)
Time zoneAEST (UTC+10:00)
Location
LGA(s)Torres Strait Island Region
State electorate(s)Cook
Federal division(s)Leichhardt

Geography edit

The island is in the Bellevue Islands group, 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Thursday Island in the Napoleon Passage and Arnolds Passage of the Torres Strait. It has other traditional names as well, such as Gœmu (strictly speaking the name of the South-East part of Mabuiag).

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.[6]

History edit

Archaeological excavations have shown that people arrived on Mabuiag at least 7300 years ago. During this period, Islanders were able to survive by fishing and hunting dugong.[7] The island continued to be occupied by small communities for the subsequent 5000 years, with pottery (usually associated with Melanesian peoples) found at two sites, Mui (East coast of Mabuiag) and Mask Cave (on adjacent islet, Pulu) dating from approximately 2000 years ago. The past 1000 years witnessed expansion in site use, including formation of multiple ethnographically-significant 'villages', including Gœmu, Wagedœgam and Dhabangay. During the past 400–500 years large, highly structured mounds of dugong bone, as well as shell and stone arrangements provide evidence for emerging totemic divisions[8]

The "Footprints before me – Torres Strait Island Missions and Communities" webpage tells the following history of Mabuiag Island and the people living there.[9]

Kala Lagaw Ya (more correctly Kalaw Lagaw Ya (KLY) and Gœmulgaw Ya) is one of the languages of the Torres Strait. Kalaw Lagaw Ya is the traditional language of the Western and Central islands of the Torres Strait. The Kalaw Lagaw Ya language region includes the torritory within the local government boundaries of the Torres Shire Council.[10]

Kalaw Lagaw Ya, alt. Gœmulgaw Ya, is specifically the dialect of Mabuyaagi (Mabuiag) and Badhu (Badu), there not being a traditional name for the language as a whole. Kalaw Lagaw Ya is used in academic literature as a cover term for the whole language, and is one of the two indigenous languages of Torres Strait; in earlier works it was also called Mabuiag. The Gœmulgaw Ya region includes the island territory of Mabuiag within the local government boundaries of the Torres Shire Council and Mabuiag Island Council and by extension Badhu.[11]

In 1606, Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated, Torres Strait islands, along New Guinea's southern coast.[12]

 
The government teacher's residence

"The Mabuiag people had a reputation for hostility to outsiders until their acceptance of Christianity in the early 1870s. In 1877 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. By 1898, 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 in 1946".[13]

Mabuiag Island State School opened on 29 January 1985. On 1 January 2007, the school became the Maubuiag Island campus of Tagai State College, an amalgamation of 17 Torres Strait Island schools.[14][15]

Demographics edit

In the 2016 census, the locality of Mabuiag Island had a population of 210 people.[16]

In the 2021 census, the locality of Mabuiag Island had a population of 253 people.[5]

Transportation edit

Mabuiag Island Airport is in the east of the island (9°57′01″S 142°11′43″E / 9.9502°S 142.1953°E / -9.9502; 142.1953 (Mabuiag Island Airfield)).[17] The runway at is only 450 metres (1,480 ft) long, making it the shortest in Australian for commercial services.[18]

Amenities edit

The Torres Strait Islands Regional Council operates an Indigenous Knowledge Centre with public library facilities on Main Street, known as Ngalpun Ngulaygaw Lag Resource Centre 'Our Place of Learning'.[19][20][21]

Education edit

Tagai State College has 17 campuses throughout the Torres Strait. Its Mabuiag Island campus (Mabuygiw Ngurpay Lag) provides primary (Early Childhood-6) education at School Street (9°57′17″S 142°11′22″E / 9.9546°S 142.1895°E / -9.9546; 142.1895 (Tagai State College - Mabuiag Island Campus)).[22][23]

There is no secondary school on the island. The nearest secondary school is Tagai State College on Thursday Island.[15]

Security issues edit

On 5 February 2008, after working on the island for a couple of months, a 27-year-old nurse from New South Wales was attacked and raped in her sleeping quarters by a resident of the island; previously, she had frequently emailed her superiors on Thursday Island about the lack of adequate security on the island.[24] The incident prompted a review of security on the island and an inquiry into the sexual attack was launched by the Government of Queensland. In February 2009, more than a year after it had begun, the inquiry's findings had still not been released, while the alleged rapist, Dennis Kris, 23, was on bail before being due to be sentenced later that year.[25]

On Monday, 16 August 2010, Dennis William Kris pleaded guilty in the Cairns District Court to rape, unlawfully entering a dwelling to commit an indictable offence and unlawfully entering a dwelling at night with intent.[26] Judge William Everson sentenced Kris to six years' jail on the first count, three years on the second, one year on the third, to be served concurrently. Everson ordered, however, that as Kris had spent 785 days in pre-sentence custody, he could apply for immediate parole.[26] Kris's mother worked at the medical centre on Mabuiag. Kris stole keys to the centre and sleeping quarters from his mother's briefcase. He let himself into the facility late at night where he attacked the sleeping woman. He and several friends then stayed outside the facility until daylight, calling out to and mocking the victim. Kris had disabled the nurse's telephone while he was in the building so she could not call for assistance.[26] When the nurse called her Queensland Health superiors on Thursday Island the morning after the rape, she was told to "put it behind you and get back to work". The nurse left the island that day to seek medical help; Queensland Health immediately stopped her pay – it was only reinstated when the details were published in The Australian.[26]

In April 2010, a Magistrates' Court was opened on the island for the first time.[27] The court is part of the Torres Strait Court Circuit which is conducted on various islands in the Torres Strait on a rotational basis.

See also edit

External videos
  Mask (Buk), Torres Strait, Mabuiag Island, Smarthistory

References edit

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mabuiag Island (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  
  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mabuiag Island (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021.  
  3. ^ "Mabuiag Island – town in Torres Strait Island Region (entry 20346)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Mabuiag Island – locality in Torres Strait Island Region (entry 46704)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  5. ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mabuiag Island (SAL)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 February 2023.  
  6. ^ "Mabuiag Island – island in the Torres Strait Region (entry 20345)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  7. ^ Wright, D. and G. Jacobsen. 2013. Further radiocarbon dates from Dabangay, a mid- to late Holocene settlement site in western Torres Strait Australian Archaeology Association 76:79–83.
  8. ^ McNiven, I. J. and Bedingfield, A. C. 2008. Past and present marine mammal hunting rates and abundances: dugong (Dugong dugon) evidence from Dabangai bone mound, Torres Strait. Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 505–15.
  9. ^ Mabuiag Island mission history from State Library of Queensland website 12 December 2004 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^   This Wikipedia article incorporates CC-BY-4.0 licensed text from: "Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map". State Library of Queensland. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  11. ^   This Wikipedia article incorporates CC-BY-4.0 licensed text from: "Mabuiag". Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map. State Library of Queensland. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  12. ^ "Torres, Luis Vaez de (?–?)". ADBonline.anu.edu.au. ADBonline.anu.edu.au. from the original on 10 April 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
  13. ^ . State Library of Queensland. 12 December 2004. Archived from the original on 12 December 2004. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  14. ^ "Opening and closing dates of Queensland Schools". Queensland Government. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  15. ^ a b Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
  16. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Mabuiag Island (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018.  
  17. ^ "Airports - Queensland". Queensland Open Data. Queensland Government. 22 October 2020. from the original on 15 November 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  18. ^ "Mabuiag Island Airport: The Home Of Australia's Shortest Commercial Runway". Simple Flying. 28 February 2023.
  19. ^ "Mabuiag (Ngalpun Ngulaygaw Lag Resource Centre)". Public Libraries Connect. 28 August 2017. from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  20. ^ . Wayback Machine. 20 February 2017. Archived from the original on 20 February 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  21. ^ "Mabuiag Public Access Facilities". Torres Strait Island Regional Council. from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  22. ^ "State and non-state school details". Queensland Government. 9 July 2018. from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  23. ^ . Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  24. ^ Sarah Elks and Tony Koch (12 March 2008). "Security boost after island rape". The Australian. News Limited. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  25. ^ "Findings delayed in nurse sex attack inquiry". ABC News (Australia). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 13 February 2009. from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  26. ^ a b c d Tony Koch and Sarah Elks (18 August 2010). "Nurse slams rapist's jail sentence". The Australian. News Limited. from the original on 11 April 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  27. ^ "Magistrate's Court opens at Mabuiag Island". Torres News. 3 April 2010. from the original on 30 October 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2010.

Further reading edit

  • Paipai, L., Teske, T. (1986). Mabuiag, island of Torres Strait. Far Northern Schools Development Unit. ISBN 0724216421. — full text online

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mabuiag Island.
  • Mabuiag Island Profile from Torres Strait Regional Authority website Accessed 7 May 2008
  • accessed 7 May 2008
  • Mabuiag Island Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) (24 May 2001)
  • Mabuiag Island – Nurse rape from The Australian reporter Tony Koch's website accessed 29 Dec 11

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Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as KML GPX all coordinates GPX primary coordinates GPX secondary coordinates Mabuiag also known as Mabuyag and natively Mabuyaagi formerly Jervis Island is one of the Torres Strait Islands in Queensland Australia Mabuiag is also a town and locality in the Torres Strait Island Region local government area 3 4 In the 2021 census the locality of Mabuiag Island had a population of 253 people 5 MabuiagNative name Mabuyaagi GœmuLandsat image of the Bellevue Islands with Mabuiag in the centreGeographyLocationArafura SeaArchipelagoBellevue IslandsTotal islands11AdministrationAustraliaStateQueenslandLocal government areaTorres Strait Island RegionDemographicsPopulation251 2006 Ethnic groupsMabuiag people Mabuiag Island QueenslandMabuiag IslandCoordinates9 57 13 S 142 11 32 E 9 9535 S 142 1922 E 9 9535 142 1922 Mabuiag Island town centre Population253 SAL 2021 1 2 Postcode s 4875Area6 3 km2 2 4 sq mi Time zoneAEST UTC 10 00 Location23 km 14 mi N of Badu Island direct 30 km 19 mi NNW of Moa Island direct 69 km 43 mi N of Thursday Island direct 863 km 536 mi NNW of Cairns direct 2 247 km 1 396 mi NNW of Brisbane direct LGA s Torres Strait Island RegionState electorate s CookFederal division s LeichhardtLocalities around Mabuiag Island Torres Strait Torres Strait Torres StraitTorres Strait Mabuiag Island Torres StraitTorres Strait Badu Island Moa Island Contents 1 Geography 2 History 3 Demographics 4 Transportation 5 Amenities 6 Education 7 Security issues 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksGeography editThe island is in the Bellevue Islands group 100 kilometres 62 mi north of Thursday Island in the Napoleon Passage and Arnolds Passage of the Torres Strait It has other traditional names as well such as Gœmu strictly speaking the name of the South East part of Mabuiag 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 6 History editArchaeological excavations have shown that people arrived on Mabuiag at least 7300 years ago During this period Islanders were able to survive by fishing and hunting dugong 7 The island continued to be occupied by small communities for the subsequent 5000 years with pottery usually associated with Melanesian peoples found at two sites Mui East coast of Mabuiag and Mask Cave on adjacent islet Pulu dating from approximately 2000 years ago The past 1000 years witnessed expansion in site use including formation of multiple ethnographically significant villages including Gœmu Wagedœgam and Dhabangay During the past 400 500 years large highly structured mounds of dugong bone as well as shell and stone arrangements provide evidence for emerging totemic divisions 8 The Footprints before me Torres Strait Island Missions and Communities webpage tells the following history of Mabuiag Island and the people living there 9 Kala Lagaw Ya more correctly Kalaw Lagaw Ya KLY and Gœmulgaw Ya is one of the languages of the Torres Strait Kalaw Lagaw Ya is the traditional language of the Western and Central islands of the Torres Strait The Kalaw Lagaw Ya language region includes the torritory within the local government boundaries of the Torres Shire Council 10 Kalaw Lagaw Ya alt Gœmulgaw Ya is specifically the dialect of Mabuyaagi Mabuiag and Badhu Badu there not being a traditional name for the language as a whole Kalaw Lagaw Ya is used in academic literature as a cover term for the whole language and is one of the two indigenous languages of Torres Strait in earlier works it was also called Mabuiag The Gœmulgaw Ya region includes the island territory of Mabuiag within the local government boundaries of the Torres Shire Council and Mabuiag Island Council and by extension Badhu 11 In 1606 Luis Vaz de Torres sailed through and navigated Torres Strait islands along New Guinea s southern coast 12 nbsp The government teacher s residence The Mabuiag people had a reputation for hostility to outsiders until their acceptance of Christianity in the early 1870s In 1877 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 By 1898 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 in 1946 13 Mabuiag Island State School opened on 29 January 1985 On 1 January 2007 the school became the Maubuiag Island campus of Tagai State College an amalgamation of 17 Torres Strait Island schools 14 15 Demographics editIn the 2016 census the locality of Mabuiag Island had a population of 210 people 16 In the 2021 census the locality of Mabuiag Island had a population of 253 people 5 Transportation editMabuiag Island Airport is in the east of the island 9 57 01 S 142 11 43 E 9 9502 S 142 1953 E 9 9502 142 1953 Mabuiag Island Airfield 17 The runway at is only 450 metres 1 480 ft long making it the shortest in Australian for commercial services 18 Amenities editThe Torres Strait Islands Regional Council operates an Indigenous Knowledge Centre with public library facilities on Main Street known as Ngalpun Ngulaygaw Lag Resource Centre Our Place of Learning 19 20 21 Education editTagai State College has 17 campuses throughout the Torres Strait Its Mabuiag Island campus Mabuygiw Ngurpay Lag provides primary Early Childhood 6 education at School Street 9 57 17 S 142 11 22 E 9 9546 S 142 1895 E 9 9546 142 1895 Tagai State College Mabuiag Island Campus 22 23 There is no secondary school on the island The nearest secondary school is Tagai State College on Thursday Island 15 Security issues editOn 5 February 2008 after working on the island for a couple of months a 27 year old nurse from New South Wales was attacked and raped in her sleeping quarters by a resident of the island previously she had frequently emailed her superiors on Thursday Island about the lack of adequate security on the island 24 The incident prompted a review of security on the island and an inquiry into the sexual attack was launched by the Government of Queensland In February 2009 more than a year after it had begun the inquiry s findings had still not been released while the alleged rapist Dennis Kris 23 was on bail before being due to be sentenced later that year 25 On Monday 16 August 2010 Dennis William Kris pleaded guilty in the Cairns District Court to rape unlawfully entering a dwelling to commit an indictable offence and unlawfully entering a dwelling at night with intent 26 Judge William Everson sentenced Kris to six years jail on the first count three years on the second one year on the third to be served concurrently Everson ordered however that as Kris had spent 785 days in pre sentence custody he could apply for immediate parole 26 Kris s mother worked at the medical centre on Mabuiag Kris stole keys to the centre and sleeping quarters from his mother s briefcase He let himself into the facility late at night where he attacked the sleeping woman He and several friends then stayed outside the facility until daylight calling out to and mocking the victim Kris had disabled the nurse s telephone while he was in the building so she could not call for assistance 26 When the nurse called her Queensland Health superiors on Thursday Island the morning after the rape she was told to put it behind you and get back to work The nurse left the island that day to seek medical help Queensland Health immediately stopped her pay it was only reinstated when the details were published in The Australian 26 In April 2010 a Magistrates Court was opened on the island for the first time 27 The court is part of the Torres Strait Court Circuit which is conducted on various islands in the Torres Strait on a rotational basis See also editExternal videos nbsp Mask Buk Torres Strait Mabuiag Island Smarthistory List of islands of Australia List of Torres Strait Islands Mabuiag Island Airport Mabuiag peopleReferences edit Australian Bureau of Statistics 28 June 2022 Mabuiag Island suburb and locality Australian Census 2021 QuickStats Retrieved 28 June 2022 nbsp Australian Bureau of Statistics 28 June 2022 Mabuiag Island suburb and locality Australian Census 2021 nbsp Mabuiag Island town in Torres Strait Island Region entry 20346 Queensland Place Names Queensland Government Retrieved 5 November 2019 Mabuiag Island locality in Torres Strait Island Region entry 46704 Queensland Place Names Queensland Government Retrieved 5 November 2019 a b Australian Bureau of Statistics 28 June 2022 Mabuiag Island SAL 2021 Census QuickStats Retrieved 28 February 2023 nbsp Mabuiag Island island in the Torres Strait Region entry 20345 Queensland Place Names Queensland Government Retrieved 22 June 2017 Wright D and G Jacobsen 2013 Further radiocarbon dates from Dabangay a mid to late Holocene settlement site in western Torres Strait Australian Archaeology Association 76 79 83 McNiven I J and Bedingfield A C 2008 Past and present marine mammal hunting rates and abundances dugong Dugong dugon evidence from Dabangai bone mound Torres Strait Journal of Archaeological Science 35 505 15 Mabuiag Island mission history from State Library of Queensland website Archived 12 December 2004 at the Wayback Machine nbsp This Wikipedia article incorporates CC BY 4 0 licensed text from Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map State Library of Queensland State Library of Queensland Retrieved 30 January 2020 nbsp This Wikipedia article incorporates CC BY 4 0 licensed text from Mabuiag Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map State Library of Queensland 30 January 2020 Retrieved 30 January 2020 Torres Luis Vaez de ADBonline anu edu au ADBonline anu edu au Archived from the original on 10 April 2011 Retrieved 14 July 2011 Footprints Before Me Torres Strait Island Communities State Library of Queensland 12 December 2004 Archived from the original on 12 December 2004 Retrieved 14 July 2023 Opening and closing dates of Queensland Schools Queensland Government Retrieved 18 April 2019 a b Queensland Family History Society 2010 Queensland schools past and present Version 1 01 ed Queensland Family History Society ISBN 978 1 921171 26 0 Australian Bureau of Statistics 27 June 2017 Mabuiag Island SSC 2016 Census QuickStats Retrieved 20 October 2018 nbsp Airports Queensland Queensland Open Data Queensland Government 22 October 2020 Archived from the original on 15 November 2020 Retrieved 3 November 2020 Mabuiag Island Airport The Home Of Australia s Shortest Commercial Runway Simple Flying 28 February 2023 Mabuiag Ngalpun Ngulaygaw Lag Resource Centre Public Libraries Connect 28 August 2017 Archived from the original on 29 January 2018 Retrieved 30 January 2018 About Mabuiag IKC Wayback Machine 20 February 2017 Archived from the original on 20 February 2017 Retrieved 29 January 2018 Mabuiag Public Access Facilities Torres Strait Island Regional Council Archived from the original on 30 January 2018 Retrieved 29 January 2018 State and non state school details Queensland Government 9 July 2018 Archived from the original on 21 November 2018 Retrieved 21 November 2018 Tagai State College Mabuiag Island Campus Archived from the original on 30 August 2012 Retrieved 21 November 2018 Sarah Elks and Tony Koch 12 March 2008 Security boost after island rape The Australian News Limited Retrieved 22 May 2010 Findings delayed in nurse sex attack inquiry ABC News Australia Australian Broadcasting Corporation 13 February 2009 Archived from the original on 8 August 2014 Retrieved 29 December 2011 a b c d Tony Koch and Sarah Elks 18 August 2010 Nurse slams rapist s jail sentence The Australian News Limited Archived from the original on 11 April 2011 Retrieved 29 December 2011 Magistrate s Court opens at Mabuiag Island Torres News 3 April 2010 Archived from the original on 30 October 2023 Retrieved 22 May 2010 Further reading editPaipai L Teske T 1986 Mabuiag island of Torres Strait Far Northern Schools Development Unit ISBN 0724216421 full text onlineExternal links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mabuiag Island Mabuiag Island Profile from Torres Strait Regional Authority website Accessed 7 May 2008 Mabuiag Island mission history from State Library of Queensland website accessed 7 May 2008 Mabuiag Island Indigenous Land Use Agreement ILUA 24 May 2001 Mabuiag People v State of Queensland 2000 FCA 1065 6 July 2000 Mabuiag Island Nurse rape from The Australian reporter Tony Koch s website accessed 29 Dec 11 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mabuiag Island amp oldid 1186044999, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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