Douglas Gresham Selling “Ramandu’s Island” Home

Douglas Gresham is selling his freehold Whitsunday Island in Queensland, Australia.

According to the family, the island was purchased partly because it reminded Mr. Gresham of his childhood images of Narnia, The Lone Islands, and Ramandu’s Island.  It also provided inspiration for some of the locations and sets for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie.

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It came slowly nearer and the light behind them made it look as if the capes and headlands of this new country were all on fire. But presently they were sailing along its coast and its western cape now rose up astern of them, black against the red sky and sharp as if it was cut out of cardboard, and then they could see better what this country was like. It had no mountains but many gentle hills with slopes like pillows. An attractive smell came from it – what Lucy called “a dim, purple kind of smell”, which Edmund said (and Rhince thought) was rot, but Caspian said, “I know what you mean.”  

They sailed on a good way, past point after point, hoping to find a nice deep harbour, but had to content themselves in the end with a wide and shallow bay.

[…] Underfoot was tine springy turf dotted here and there with a low bushy growth which Edmund and Lucy took for heather.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, “Ch. 13: The Three Sleepers”