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Lupton Island
HISTORY
Lupton Island
In 1879 Staff Commander E. P. Bedwell, RN, in SS Llewellyn gave
the name 'Lupton Isles' to today's Lupton Island and the small island on its
east connected to it by a reef (Bedwell's charts). The latter sometimes carries
the local name of Cashell Rock (see Bareboat names).
The most likely origin of the name is from one of the crew of Llewellyn. There is a town of Lupton in today's English County of Cumbria and this may tempt some to say the name is one of the many from the English county of Cumberland given by Bedwell to the Whitsundays. However Lupton was in the old County of Westmorland which was amalgamated with Cumberland in 1974 into the new county of Cumbria and therefore does not qualify as a Cumberland name.
Over the years, as Haslewood Island was held under various tenures, Lupton Island was always included in the holdings (see Haslewood Island).
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!