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Craven Island
HISTORY
Craven Island
The Proserpine Guardian of 2 October 1926 carried an item about a
search for a missing boat with two men aboard, one of whom was George Davies who
owned the lease over Cid Island at that time. A plane from the RAAF
Flight 101 then based at Bowen sighted the boat 'at Craven Island to the
left of Cid Island' which presumably referred to Hill Rock on the western
side of Cid Island and which had been named in 1866 by Commander G. S. Nares,
RN, in HMS Salamander.
The name 'Craven Island' most likely came from Lieutenant F. N. Craven of HMAS Geranium which surveyed the area in the early 1920s but the name has never appeared officially.
The Information on the Whitsunday Islands is reproduced by kind permission of Mr. Ray Blackwood from his book:
" The Whitsunday Islands An Historical Dictionary ".
Please visit his site here. It is well worth the time!