Thursday adası Avustralya'nın en kuzeyindeki Cape York ve Yeni Gine arasındaki Torres boğazında bulunmaktadır.
- Thursday Island is situated in the Torres Strait between Australia's northernmost Cape York and New Guinea.
Papua Yeni Gine'de yaşayan birçok Melanezyalının çok kıvırcık saçları vardır, değil mi?
- Most of the Melanesians living in Papua New Guinea have very curly hair, don't they?
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection.