# Thursday Island

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. An island in the Torres Strait.

## Etymology
In 1848 Captain Owen Stanley of the Royal Navy named this island Friday Island and another island Thursday Island (presumably the days of the week on which he named them). However, in June 1855 Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort switched the two names around, probably to preserve the east–west naming sequence with the present-day Friday Island and the nearby Wednesday Island.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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