[2] Situated on a coral cay, Sue Island has an abundance of traditional foods such as wongai and coconuts.

Fish, turtles and dugong inhabit the warm waters and coral reefs surrounding the island.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted that by 2100, tides will rise by 30–110cm, depending on the timing and level of cuts to carbon emissions.

[3] Warraber Island State School was opened on 29 January 1985.

On 1 January 2007 it became the Warraber Island campus of the Tagai State College.

[citation needed] The day-to-day language of Warraber is Brokan (Torres Strait Creole); however, the traditional language of the people of Waraber is Kulkalgau Ya, one of the four dialects of Kalaw Lagaw Ya.

Many Sue Islanders still retain strong links to their traditional religion, centring on ancestor worship, including a totemic clan structure.

[citation needed] On 1 July every year the residents of Sue Island observe the "Coming of the Light".

On this date in 1871, a Christian reverend named Samuel MacFarlane of the London Missionary Society came to convert the Indigenous people of the Torres Strait to Christianity.