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On Sunday 3 June 1770, (the day Whitsun—Pentecost was celebrated on the Christian calendar) Captain James Cook sailed his ship H.M.B. Endeavour, through a broad expanse of islands which provided an unimpeded passage to the north. Cook named the passage "Whitsundays' Passage". [5] Cook's recorded times and dates are often questioned.
After travelling north for a further two days, in his journal for Monday 4 June he recorded that he named the body of water through which he sailed Whitsunday's Passage "… as it was discovered on the day the Church commemorates that Festival" and called the islands in the area "Cumberland Isles in honour of His Royal Highness the Duke of ...
The earliest charts of the Whitsunday area showed only one island, named 'Passage Island' where Dent Island and Hamilton Island currently lie. It was not until 1866, when Commander G. S. Nares , Royal Navy , on HMS Salamander , carried out a detailed survey of the northern waters of the Whitsunday Passage that the charts were amended to show ...
The town takes its name from the Whitsunday Passage ... the town was created to encompass the whole of the urbanised area around the Whitsunday ... Town map (centre ...
Whitsunday Island is the largest island in the Whitsunday group of islands located off the coast of Central Queensland, Australia. History
The island is almost uninhabited, quite rugged and almost completely contained within a section of the Whitsunday Islands National Park. The island has two prominent geographical features on the southern side of Hook Island; the Nara and Macona inlets, two fjord-like recesses that are used as anchorages for the Whitsunday tourist fleet.
It's called the Passage Du Gois and is popular among tourists. The road is considered dangerous, signs warn people to avoid the causeway when it's flooded.
The region spans from the beaches of Bowen in the north and Laguna Whitsundays in the south. All 74 of the islands are surrounded by the Great Barrier Reef and only eight of them are inhabited. On Whitsunday Island is the six km long Whitehaven Beach. [3] The beach has camping and picnic facilities in its foredunes. A walking track links to ...