Badu

Badu Island is in the Torres Strait, 55 km north of Thursday Island. A little less than 10 km in diameter, Badu has numerous granite hills with sandy patches in between. Most of the population is on the south of the island.

Further Reading: 

Jeremy Beckett, Torres Strait Islanders: custom and colonialism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989

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