The Islanders are strongly attached to their homeland with those living in the mainland returning regularly to the islands for reunions. Torres Strait Islanders are First Nations Australians who come from the islands of the Torres Strait, between Cape York in Queensland and Papua New Guinea. There are over 6,800 Torres Strait Islanders inhabiting the Torres Strait Islands and about 42,000 living in other regions mostly in the north of Queensland. The islanders speak two languages with the inhabitants of the eastern island speaking Meriam Mir and the western and central islanders speaking Kala Kawa Ya. The Torres Strait Islanders have lived on the islands for many years and are further divided into two communities at Bamaga and Seisia. One might plausibly assert that the Melanesians of the western Torres Strait have moved along with the world, turning to new cultural practices and losing interest in the traditions perceived as old and outdated once Western ideas and technologies reached the islands’ shores.
Although they have high standings with the Melanesians and the Aboriginal Australians, the Torres Strait Islanders are independent with distinct identity. Traditional Songs of the Western Torres Straits, South Pacific. The Torres Strait Islanders are the native people of the islands of Torres Strait who are culturally and genetically Melanesian. The Torres Strait Islanders have two main Melanesian languages (and a pidgin English) and is increasingly. There is some mobility between the two areas. Torres Strait IslandersĪustralia has two native people groups the Aboriginals who mainly live in Australian mainland, and the Torres Strait Islanders. The Melanesian Torres Strait Islanders have lived in the islands north of Queensland for at least 10,000 years and are closely related to the nearby Papuan people of Papua New Guinea. The majority of the inhabitants of the island (3,800) are Torres Strait Islanders. The population of the Torres Strait Islands is about 4,248 people. Human settlement is confined to only 17 Torres Strait Islands while the rest of the islands are at risk of sinking because of the rising sea level. However, some of the Torres Strait Islands are located next to the mainland Guinea and form part to the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. The islands form part of Queensland which is a territory of Australia. The Torres Strait Islands consist of over 250 small islands located in the Torres Strait which is a waterway separating the Cape York Peninsula from the island of New Guinea. They are all indigenous inhabitants of Boigu, Poruma, Warraber and Masig, four small, low-lying islands in Australia’s Torres Strait region.
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