Sunday Islet (Queensland)
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Sunday Islet ([1]) is a small island in far north Queensland, Australia 1 km North of Cape Grenville in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia.
On Sunday 31 May 1789, after the mutiny on the Bounty, Captain Bligh and the men who remained loyal to him arrived on the island on in the ship's boat. He named it Sunday Island because that day was a Sunday.[2]
[edit] Aerial photos & maps
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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
[edit] References
- ^ Sunday Islet page at Geoscience Australia
- ^ A Voyage to the South Sea by William Bligh, available freely at Project Gutenberg
