Horn Island is an island in the Torres Strait, in Queensland’s north between the Australian mainland and Papua New Guinea. At the 2006 census, Horn Island had a population of 585.
Church Influence: London Missionary Society up until 1915 when the Anglican Church assumed responsibility.
Horn Island is known as Nœrupai (colloquially Nurupai) to the Kaurareg (Islander) people and was given its English name by Matthew Flinders in 1802.
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