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Whitsunday Islands
Geography
Location	Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	20°18′S 148°56′E / 20.3°S 148.933°E
Country
	Australia

Hill inlet on Whitsunday Island

Whitehaven beach on Whitsunday Island

Hill inlet, north of Whitehaven beach

Whilst Whitsunday Islands is not an officially approved place name, it is a label applied to a collection of continental islands of various sizes off the central coast of Queensland, Australia, situated between just south of Bowen and to the north of Mackay, some 900 kilometres (560 mi) north of Brisbane.

The term is a mis-nomer, based as it is on Captain Cook’s naming of what is now known as the Whitsunday Passage (in Cook’s Journal, Whitsunday’s Passage) in the belief that the passage was discovered on Whitsunday whereas, because of an error in time-keeping, it was actually Whit-Monday.

Contention has existed as to exactly what islands are within the informally-named Whitsunday Islands, in particular as to the southern extremity and the inclusions to the west. What is certain is that they lie within the chain named Cumberland Isles by Captain Cook (now officially approved as the Cumberland Islands) and a reasonably defined section of that chain and surrounding waters have become known world-wide as The Whitsundays based on a contraction of the Whitsunday Islands designation.

Listed below are islands of The Whitsundays, divided by group locality. Named rocks and islets can be found listed within the entry for the nearest island to that feature:

[edit] The Whitsunday Group

Bird Island
Black Island
Border Island
Cid Island
Cowrie Island
Deloraine Island
Dent Island
Dumbbell Island
Dungarra Island
Esk Island
Fitzalan Island
Hamilton Island
Harold Island
Haslewood Island
Hayman Island
Henning Island
Hook Island
Ireby Island
Langford Island
Long Island
Lupton Island
Nicolson Island
Perseverance Island
Plum Pudding Island
Teague Island
Titan Island
Whitsunday Island
Wirrainbela Island
Workington Island

[edit] Lindeman Group

The Lindeman Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The Lindeman Group of islands is located at 20°27′S 149°04′E / 20.45°S 149.067°E / -20.45; 149.067. Situated within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park the Lindeman Islands are part of the greater Whitsunday Islands.

The islands in the Lindeman Group include:

Baynham Island
Cornston Island
Gaibirra Island
Triangle Island
Keyser Island
Lindeman Island
Little Lindeman Island
Maher Island
Mansell Island
Pentecost Island
Seaforth Island
Shaw Island
Thomas Island
Volskow Island

[edit] The Molle Group

Daydream Island (formerly West Molle Island)
Denman Island
Goat Island
Mid Molle Island
North Molle Island
Planton Island
South Molle Island

[edit] Northern Group

Armit Island
Double Cone Island
Eshelby Island
Gloucester Island
Grassy Island
Gumbrell Island
Olden Island
Rattray Island
Saddleback Island

[edit] Timezone

The Whitsundays observe Australian Eastern Standard Time.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Whitsunday Shire Council

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