Sunday Islet is a small island in far north
Queensland,
Australia
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2.5 km north of
Cape Grenville Peninsula in the
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland,
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
.
On Sunday 31 May 1789, after the
mutiny on the ''Bounty'',
Captain Bligh
Vice-Admiral William Bligh (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. The mutiny on the HMS ''Bounty'' occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command; after being set adrift i ...
and the men who remained loyal to him arrived on the island on the
ship's boat. He named it Sunday Island because that day was a Sunday.
References
Islands on the Great Barrier Reef
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