Tea towel featuring black and white map design on white fabric. Large rectangle of light fabric, looks like machine-woven linen or canvas. Map of Thursday Island and surrounding sea/archipelago, with names labelled in English, printed onto fabric in solid matte black. The design features a square annotated map with ‘Papua New Guinea’ at the top and ‘Cape York Peninsula’ at the bottom, under which ‘THURSDAY ISLAND’ is printed in large font.
Depicting map of Thursday Is and Cape York penisula.
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