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THURSDAY ISLAND

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 904 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THURSDAY ISLAND  , one of the smallest of the Prince of Wales
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group, N. of Cape York, in the Torres Strait, attached ' William Allen (1806–1879), a native of North Carolina, removed in 1822 to
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Chillicothe,
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Ohio, was admitted to the bar in 1827, was a representative in Congress in 1833–1835, served in the
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United States Senate in 1837–1.849, and Was governor of Ohio in 1874–1875.to Somerset county,
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Queensland,
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Australia . Pop . (1901), 1534 . It has an excellent harbour,
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Port Kennedy, and is a port of call for
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mail steamers and the centre of the beche-de-mer and pearl
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fisheries of the Torres Strait . It is a fortified coaling station for the
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British
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navy . The neighbouring Friday Island is the quarantine and leper station for Queensland .

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