The following day, Flinders named the nearby headland Cape Wiles "after a worthy friend at Liguanea, in Jamaica."

[4] In 1905, the ship Governor Musgrave called by Liguanea Island while searching for the wreckage of the lost vessel, Loch Vennachar.

A newspaper correspondent on the vessel described the island as "a large bare block of forbidding granite some miles in extent.

[6] The island first obtained protected area status as a fauna conservation reserve declared under the Crown Lands Act 1929-1966 on 16 March 1967.

Among there species recorded were Australian sea-lion, little penguin, Cape Barren goose and bush rat.