island in the Cumberland Islands, across Whitsunday Passage from northeastern Queensland, Australia. A rocky, coral-fringed continental island of the Great Barrier Reef, it has an area of 6 square miles (16 square km) and rises to 800 feet (240 m) at Mount Oldfield. Lindeman was the first island (1923) of the Cumberland group to be developed as a resort and has been designated a national park.