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The traditional people of Torres Strait are of Melanesian origin and speak two distinct languages. They are distinct from Aboriginal Australians living on the mainland. Over the past 25 years, archaeologists working in the Torres Strait have found evidence of human settlement dating back 2,500 years. Torres Strait is named after a Spanish captain, Torres, who sailed through the strait in 1606 on his way to the Philippines. For many Australians, the Torres Strait Islands are best known as the birth place of Eddie Koiki Mabo. Born on the island of Mer, Mabo became famous for his work campaigning for Indigenous land rights and for his role in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that overturned the legal doctrine of terra nullius ("land belonging to nobody"), which had characterised Australian law with regard to land and title. As a result of that case, the islands were the first place in Australia where Native Title was recognised under Australian law. Mabo died of cancer in 1992, at the age of 55, five months before the High Court overturned "terra nullius", which eventually led to the creation of various forms of land rights laws for Indigenous Australians. Source: The people and history of the Torres Strait Islands Published24 August 2015 www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-34037235

This is really great.

It's interesting that they use the now somewhat archaic term 'Ruthenian' to refer to Ukrainian. The Chinese characters are (in my bad Romanization) 'Gung tzu ye su sing daan'. Also odd that they refer to 'christian hebrew' as a language.

I noticed Christian Hebrew also. Very interesting. I am impressed by the quality of the Chinese characters and I love that Esperanto is the main central language at the top of the page--as if lots of New Yorkers were speaking it!

"Christian Hebrew" probably because a simple "Hebrew" would most likely be taken as "Jewish Hebrew" which is incompatible for "Merry Christmas".....

There is a small mistake in Czech greetings, the whole Polish text is wrong, too - there should be "wesolych swiat" (wesołych świąt) :)

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