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Ireby Island
HISTORY
Ireby Island
Ireby Island was named in 1879 by Staff Commander E. P. Bedwell, RN,
in SS Llewellyn and is one of the many names from the then English
county of Cumberland he brought to the Whitsundays following James Cook's 1770
designation of the group as 'The Cumberland Isles'. Ireby is a town in the north
of Cumbria into which Cumberland was absorbed in 1974 (Bedwell's charts). The
island was declared a national park in 1940.
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!