Indian Head on Pentecost Island

This is a rock formation called ‘Indian Head’ on Pentecost Island, one of the Whitsunday Islands that we passed. You can easily make out the side profile of a person when you look at the rocks.
Geologically the Whitsunday Islands are all drowned mountains, prior to the last Ice Age they were connected to the mainland and would have all been prominent mountains in the area. The first European (i.e after the aborigines) to explore the area was our own Captain James Cook who travelled through the area on his journey up the eastern coast of Australia on the Endeavour in 1770. He passed through Whitsunday passage, a narrow channel which lies between the mainland coast and the islands on Sunday 4 June which happened to be Whit Sunday (the seventh Sunday after Easter) - hence the name of the area. You see, I’m educating you here!
Pentecost Island was the first island in the Whitsunday group to be named and the only one in the group named by Cook, in June 1770 with the phrase “More remarkable than the rest”. It was named so because his trip was made during the feast of Pentecost (Whitsunday).