Keppel Bay Area

Keppel Bay, a coastal indent with about 30 km of shoreline on Queensland's central Capricorn Coast, runs southwards from Emu Park to Curtis Island, a large island extending to Gladstone. Keppel Bay was named by Captain James Cook in 1770 after Augustus Keppel (1725-86), a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and later First Lord of the Admiralty.

Further Reading: 

Leo Carpenter, Livingstone: a history of the Shire of Livingstone, Brisbane, Boolarong Publications for Livingstone Shire Bicentennial Community Committee, 1991

Keppel Sands Historical Society, The history of Keppel Sands and district, Yeppoon, Capricorn Printing, 1995

Emu Park and Yeppoon entries

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