Horn Island from the air
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Horn Island air strip
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Horn Island wharf
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Horn Island
Horn Island, Torres Strait, is the second largest of the Prince of Wales Group. It is a short way east of Thursday Island and 20 km from the nearest tip of Cape York. It was named Horned Island in 1803 by the explorer, Matthew Flinders, because of a raised part of the island.
The main place of European settlement in Torres Strait was Thursday Island, and before World War II Horn Island's main economic activity had been gold mining in the 1890s. Horn Island was described in the 1903 Australian handbook:
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