As Disney Cruise Line approaches the opening of its new Bahamas destination Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point this summer, those behind its design want to let people know not just what it is but also what it is not.

It’s not a clone of Castaway Cay, the popular Bahamas private island DCL has been visiting for more than two decades.

Speaking at a panel discussion Thursday at Walt Disney World, Denise Case, director of entertainment creative for Disney, said when Imagineers built that first destination the theme was “everyone’s just kind of cast away on a deserted island in the middle of the Bahamas.”

“It’s a very fictional place,” she said, adding that Lookout Cay “is a real place with real people and a real culture. It is truly about the Bahamas. There’s nothing fictional really about it.”

Much like Disney pursued an authentic Hawaiian experience at its Aulani resort, Imagineers have tackled that approach for the new port of call at the southern tip of the island of Eleuthera. It’s set to welcome its first visitors in June.

Among new details released Thursday, the cruise line revealed the first full site map, which shows a massive swath of green for the 900-acre development.

“One of the things that I love about this map is how untouched the site is,” said Joey Gaskins, DCL’s regional public affairs director and a Bahamas native.

To date, only 16% has been developed and 152 acres have been given back to the government of the Bahamas “because the site is so meaningful, and so I think looking at that very small footprint on what is a significant piece of property is really important on the environmental story as well,” Gaskins said.

He also gave the history behind the name Lighthouse Point, when asked if there was an actual lighthouse on the site. The answer is: sort of.

“The technical name for the building on the site is actually a light station, so it’s not a lighthouse in the traditional sense of a tower with the light on top that’s going around,” he said. “But there’s a structure there that had an outdoor kitchen, a living facility, and that was used to guide ships in from the water.”

The area is actually known for shipwrecks, he said. A settlement on the island now called Rock Sound used to be called Wreck Sound, and the island has a history of people sustaining themselves with goods from the wrecks.

“In other words, ships would wreck against the reefs, and they would go out there and collect wherever they could, sell the goods for later,” he said,

It’s one of the interesting stories line hopes its visitors discover when they venture on excursions away from the destination, including visits to the light station, which is not part of Disney’s property.

“We’ve committed to creating safe access to that, so people can take a look at it and see it, and again, keep it protected,” he said.

Other excursions look to take advantage of Eleuthera’s natural beauty.

“It has a lot of natural wonders — the Glass Window Bridge that separates the Exuma Sound from the Atlantic Ocean; you have pink sand beaches that stretch for miles; blue holes that have mermaid stories attached to them; cathedral caves that reach up into the sky,” Gaskins said.

Guests will have plenty to enjoy within the property lines, with offerings leaning heavily on Bahamian culture, especially the carnival-esque parade called Junkanoo, which is traditionally celebrated across the nation on Boxing Day on Dec. 26 and New Year’s Day on Jan. 1.

“Junkanoo is the preeminent cultural celebration of the Bahamas,” he said. “It includes goatskin drums, cow bells, whistles, brass, and these amazing costumes made out of cray paper and cardboard. … It is really a celebration of freedom.”

Its origins are debated he said, with some saying it came from Africa and others that it was born of colonial settlement, “but what it has become for us in the Bahamas is symbolic of who we are as a people. It is our creativity, our energy, all of it encapsulated across these two parades during the holidays.”

Visitors to Lookout Cay will get daily doses of the parade and participate in the event Disney organized with the help of the Bahamas National Junkanoo Committee.

“You’ll be able to participate with the music, you’ll be able to make a Bahamian craft,” Case said. “You’ll learn about the cardboard and the pasting and the cray paper. Let me tell you it’s harder than you think y’all.”

The color and vibrancy of that spills over to the character designs for Mickey and the gang that will be found at the resort, but also to the buildings, especially at the heart of the resort called the Goombay Cultural Center, said Kassandra Rose, a creative director with Walt Disney Imagineering.

“You’re also going to see Junkanoo influenced in the architecture and the artwork from the local Bahamian artists,” she said. “The Junkanoo feel of all aspects of culture coming together and really community, so the guests will be able to come and learn from local artists and learn about tradition and be completely inspired by that environment from the artwork on the walls to the patterns on the ceiling.”

One more note about Bahamian authenticity: when asked about how to pronounce “Cay,” the overwhelming opinion is to say it like “key.”

“If you’re Bahamian, it’s always ‘key,’” Gaskins said. “So we’ve adopted that pronunciation, I think, for Lookout Cay.”