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Maher Island
HISTORY
Maher Island
Maher Island was named in 1868 by Commander H. M. Bingham, RN, in HMS Virago
after Sub Lieutenant Walter Herbert Maher on board Virago. While
Maher's name does not appear in navy lists for Virago for 1868 it does
appear in later years, indicating that he may have been only a midshipman in
1868. That he was on Virago in 1868 is demonstrated in the Port
Denison Times of 21 November 1868 which reports a cricket match between a
Bowen side and a team from Virago in which Maher played.
Maher Island first received historic mention when in June 1770, Sydney
Parkinson, the artist in HMS Endeavour included its outline in a pencil
sketch of the complex of islands which runs south from Maher Island to Burning
Point at the southern end of Shaw Island (see Cook).
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!