Mabuiag Island
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Landsat image of the Bellevue Islands, with Mabuiag in the centre | |||||||||||||
Mabuiag Island | |||||||||||||
Interactive map of Mabuiag Island | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 9°57′13″S 142°11′32″E / 9.9535°S 142.1922°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 6.3 km2 (2.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 253 (SAL 2021) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10:00 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 4875 | ||||||||||||
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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. In the 2021 census, the locality of Mabuiag Island had a population of 253 people with 94.1% identifying as Indigenous Australians.