The Coming of the Light is a holiday celebrated by Torres Strait Islanders on 1 July each year. It recognises the adoption of Christianity through island communities during the late nineteenth ...

On the eastern Torres Strait Island of Mer (also known as ... excitement building for the Coming of the Light Festival, which marks the 1871 arrival of English missionaries. This year, the ...

Historian and curator Leah Lui-Chivizhe is a Torres Strait Islander with enduring family connections to the eastern and western Torres Strait Leah Lui-Chivizhe’s new book, 'Masked Histories ...

the first navigator credited with coming across the islands is the Spaniard Luis Vaez de Torres who sailed through the strait in 1606. The discovery of pearl shell in the 1860s led to an influx of ...