South Cumberland Islands National Park

South Cumberland Islands National Park Queensland
IUCN category II (national park)
South Cumberland Islands National Park
Nearest town or city	Mackay, Queensland
Coordinates	20°44′28″S 149°28′25″E / 20.74111°S 149.47361°E / -20.74111; 149.47361Coordinates: 20°44′28″S 149°28′25″E / 20.74111°S 149.47361°E / -20.74111; 149.47361
Area	21.8 km² (8.4 sq mi)
Managing authorities	Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
Website	South Cumberland Islands National Park
See also	Protected areas of Queensland

South Cumberland Islands is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 831 km northwest of Brisbane. It is famous for the Marine stingers which can be found in the waters of the park between October and May.^[1]

Islands

Islands that are protected within the park include (portion of) Keswick Island, St Bees Island, Cockermouth Island and Scawfell Island, which is the largest in the group. Refuge Bay on Scawfell Island provides good anchorage and fishing is permitted here.^[1] Bush camping is permitted on Scawfell Island but visitors must be self-sufficient.

Scawfell Island

Scawfell Island (located at 20°52'S., 149°37'E.) rises to a peak, 397m high, South East of Duddon Point, the North extremity of the island. The Island lies off the cost of Queensland Australia, North East of Mackay. The island, lying 60 kilometres off the Australian mainland, is a large horseshoe shape. Granite cliffs line the coast of Scawfell Island, the largest national park island in the South Cumberland group. Large areas of rainforest perch on steep mountain slopes. Access to the island is via Refuge bay, a tree lined 1.3 km white sandy beach. The bay is a wide sheltered bay facing north with all tidal access. The bay has clear blue water, an excellent coral fringing reef, ideal for snorkelling.

The island is officially regarded as the beginning of the Whitsunday group. It was originally part of the Cumberland Isles Group identified by Captain James Cook in 1770, but was not named. The island is one of the Cumberland Isles, later known as Whitsundays, and is now part of the South Cumberland Islands. Designated L Island by Lieutenant Matthew Flinders of the British Royal Navy in September 1802 as one of his numerous alpha-numeric designations along the Queensland coast during his circumnavigation of Australia in HMS Investigator in 1802/3. Named as Scawfell Island in 1879 by Staff Commander E. P. Bedwell of the British Royal Navy who surveyed and named many islands of the Whitsundays in 1879 in SS Llewellyn. The Island is named after England's second highest mountain, in Cumbria. Called "Scawfell" at the time, this mountain is now called Sca Fell due to a procedural error by the Ordnance Survey in capturing the correct name, publishing this in 1867. This mistake changed common usage by about 1920. The Scafell Range includes Scafell Pike, England's highest mountain, but in 1879 many people did not differentiate between Scawfell Pike and Scawfell (spellings of that date) - regarding them as part of the same mountain.^[2]

The island is uninhabited, though camping is allowed, but a permit is required from Queensland National parks. Camping is at sheltered sites in Refuge Bay.

St Bees Island St Bees Island is the 2nd largest island in the group 10.32 km² (3.98 sq mi), and is populated by a family living at Homestead Bay on the island.

References

1 2 Explore Queensland's National Parks. Prahran, Victoria: Explore Australia Publishing. 2008. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-74117-245-4.
↑ Wainwright, A. (1960). The Southern Fells. London: Francis Lincoln. ISBN 0-7112-2230-4.

National Parks of Queensland

Central	Blackdown Tableland Byfield Capricorn Coast Capricornia Cays Carnarvon Castle Tower Curtis Island Deepwater Epping Forest Eurimbula Expedition Goodedulla Humboldt Isla Gorge Junee Keppel Bay Islands Kroombit Tops Littabella Mazeppa Minerva Hills Mount Archer Mount Colosseum Mount Etna Caves Mount Jim Crow Mount O'Connell Mount Walsh Nuga Nuga Palmgrove Peak Range Rundle Range Snake Range Taunton West Hill Wild Cattle Island

Darling Downs	Bendidee Bunya Mountains Crows Nest Erringibba Girraween Main Range Mount Binga Pidna Southwood Sundown The Palms Wondul Range

Far North	Alwal Annan River Barnard Island Group Barron Gorge Black Mountain Blackbraes Bulleringa Cape Melville Cedar Bay Chillagoe-Mungana Claremont Isles Clump Mountain Crater Lakes Daintree Danbulla Davies Creek Denham Group National Park Edmund Kennedy Ella Bay Endeavour River Eubenangee Swamp Family Islands Fitzroy Island Flinders Group Frankland Group Forbes Islands Forty Mile Scrub Great Basalt Wall Green Island Grey Peaks Girringun Goold Island Hann Tableland Hasties Swamp Hinchinbrook Island Hope Islands Howick Group Hull River Japoon Jardine River Kirrama Kuranda Kurrimine Beach Kutini-Payamu (Iron Range) Lakefield Lama Lama Lizard Island Ma’alpiku Island Macalister Range Malaan Maria Creek Marpa Michaelmas and Upolu Cays Millstream Falls Mitchell-Alice Rivers Moresby Range Mount Cook Mount Hypipamee Mount Lewis Mount Spurgeon Mount Webb Mount Windsor Mowbray Murray Falls, Girramay Nymph Island Oyala Thumotang Palmerston Rocks Piper Islands Possession Island Precipice Quoin Island Raine Island Rocky Islets Russell River Sandbanks Saunders Islands Sir Charles Hardy Group Staaten River Starcke Three Islands Topaz Road Tully Gorge Turtle Group Two Islands Undara Volcanic Wooroonooran Yungaburra

North	Blackwood Brook Islands Bowling Green Bay Brampton Islands Broad Sound Islands Cape Hillsborough Cape Palmerston Cape Upstart Conway Dipperu Dryander Eungella Gloucester Island Halifax Bay Wetlands Holbourne Island Homevale Lindeman Islands Magnetic Island Molle Islands Moorrinya Mount Aberdeen Mount Martin Mount Ossa Newry Islands Northumberland Islands Orpheus Island Paluma Range Pioneer Peaks Reliance Creek Repulse Island Round Top Island Smith Islands South Cumberland Islands South Island Swain Reefs Whitsunday Islands

South West	Alton Chesterton Range Culgoa Floodplain Currawinya Diamantina Hell Hole Gorge Idalia Lake Bindegolly Mariala Narkoola Thrushton Tregole

North West	Boodjamulla Camooweal Caves Porcupine Gorge White Mountains

Central West	Astrebla Downs Bladensburg Cudmore Diamantina Forest Den Goneaway Lochern Munga-Thirri Narrien Range Welford

Wide Bay-Burnett	Auburn River Beeron Beninbi Burrum Coast Cania Gorge Coalstoun Lakes Fairlies Knob Goodnight Scrub Goomboorian Great Sandy Grongah Mount Bauple Pipeclay Poona Tarong Woondum Woowoonga

Brisbane and Surrounds	Bellthorpe Blue Lake Bribie Island Burleigh Head Conondale D'Aguilar Deer Reserve Dularcha Esk Eudlo Creek Ferntree Creek Fort Lytton Freshwater Gatton Glass House Mountains Kondalilla Lamington Lockyer Mapleton Falls Mooloolah River Moogerah Peaks Moreton Island Mount Barney Mount Chinghee Mount Coolum Mount Pinbarren Nicoll Scrub Noosa Nerang Ravensbourne Sarabah Southern Moreton Bay Islands St Helena Island Springbrook Tamborine Teerk Roo Ra Tewantin Triunia Venman Bushland Wickham

Protected areas of Queensland

North Queensland, Queensland

Cities	Townsville Mackay

Townships	Airlie Beach Ayr Bowen Charters Towers Ingham Proserpine

Local Government Areas	Burdekin Charters Towers Hinchinbrook Mackay Palm Island Townsville Whitsunday Region

National Parks	Blackwood Brook Islands Bowling Green Bay Brampton Islands Broad Sound Islands Cape Hillsborough Cape Palmerston Cape Upstart Conway Dipperu Dryander Eungella Gloucester Island Halifax Bay Wetlands Holbourne Island Homevale Lindeman Islands Magnetic Island Molle Islands Moorrinya Mount Aberdeen Mount Martin Mount Ossa Newry Islands Northumberland Islands Orpheus Island Paluma Range Pioneer Peaks Reliance Creek Repulse Island Round Top Island Smith Islands South Cumberland Islands South Island Swain Reefs Whitsunday Islands

Places of interest	Wallaman Falls Whitsunday Islands

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South Cumberland Islands National Park

Islands

See also

References