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Blackcombe Island
HISTORY
Blackcombe Island
Blackcombe 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'.
Blackcombe is a mountain in the south-west of Cumbria into which the old county
of Cumberland was absorbed in 1974.
This island is geologically interesting in that it is a tiny body of conglomerate rock sitting atop a huge mass of underlying pink granite from which Shaw Island and some of its neighbours are built. Geologists think it originated from detritus from an ancient overhanging cliff which has long eroded away.
This most likely is Flinders' M1 Island though it is badly misplaced on
his chart. The island was declared a national park in 1936.
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!