Welcome to The Whitsundays
Whitsunday Island Resorts, Airlie Beach Accommodation and Whitsunday Overnight Sailing . G'day welcome to our site, we offer the best in Whitsunday and Airlie Beach accommodation and Whitsunday sailing cruises. We can make a package to suit all budgets and tastes big groups and families, to the lone traveller. Have a chat to Libby and Bob and let them help you make the most out of your Whitsunday experience. Access to a huge range of Airlie and Island accommodation and the best cruises. Check out our on-line accommodation bookings facility.
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Whitsunday Facts
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The Aboriginals
It is apparent Lindeman Island was the site of an Aboriginal camp from time to time probably because of the reliable water supply in the stream at the south-west corner of the island. The account of the killing of two crew members from the Ellida in 1861 states there were thirty or forty Aboriginals in a camp there and in his sailing directions Commander Bingham says it was the only island among those in the same area where natives were seen though traces of them were found on other islands. After white settlement of the Whitsundays most Aborigines drifted away but some remained on Lindeman Island into the time of the Nicolson family.
The Aboriginal name for Lindeman Island was Yakaima, meaning Red Emperor (Gilbert P. Whitley, Ichthyologist to the Australian Museum 1925) though the name is variously spelt and pronounced in other writings.
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