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Aspatria Island
HISTORY
Aspatria Island Aspatria Island originally was designated 'L5' island by Matthew Flinders in October 1802 as one of his alpha-numeric namings. It was re-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'. Aspatria is a town in the north-west of the county which was absorbed into the new county of Cumbria in 1974.
The island was declared a national park in 1938.
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!