Tuin Island

With the exception of a few weeks on Badu, and a week’s stay for Lucy in the hospital on Thursday Island, Tuin Island is the setting for Castaway’s main present-time narrative. Tiny Tuin is situated between two larger Islands, Badu and Moa, Torres Strait between the Northern tip of Australia and Papua New Guinea, between the Coral and Arafura Seas and while Islanders visit there to farm tubers or fish, like Ronald, Tuin has remained uninhabited, which makes it an ideal candidate for G’s planned adventure. In fact, Tuin is the third uninhabited tropical island where G will attempt to successfully live out his island year, with the first two attempts falling short. By the time Lucy and G arrive in Australia to get married at the requirement of the government, it still has not selected a suitable option for them to live...