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Great Keppel Island lies 15 kilometres from the coast off Yeppoon
Yeppoon, Queensland

Yeppoon is a coastal resort town situated in Central Queensland, Australia. The town has been relieved of its duties as the Local government centre for the Livingstone Shire due to the 2007/2008 Local Government Amalgamations....
, Central Queensland
Central Queensland

Central Queensland is an ambiguous geography division of Queensland that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn. Its major regional centre is Rockhampton, Queensland and the Capricorn Coast and the area extends west to the Central Highlands at Emerald, Queensland, north to Mackay, Queensland, and south to Gladstone, Que...
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 . The island is the largest of the eighteen islands in the Keppel Group, and covers an area of more than 14.5 square kilometres. The islands were named by Captain James Cook in 1770 after the then First Lord of the Admiralty, Admiral Augustus Keppel.

The island has always been attractive to visits from people, with centuries old midden
Midden

A midden, also known as a kitchen midden, or a shell heap, is a landfill. The word is of Scandinavian via Middle English derivation, but is used by archaeology worldwide to describe any kind of feature containing waste products relating to day-to-day human life....
s testifying to the quantity of seafood
Seafood

Seafood is any aquatic animal that is served as food and eaten by humans. Seafoods include fish and shellfish .The harvesting of seafood is known as fishing and the cultivation and farming of seafood is known as aquaculture, mariculture, or in the case of fish, fish farming....
 found in the surrounding waters.






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Great Keppel Island lies 15 kilometres from the coast off Yeppoon
Yeppoon, Queensland

Yeppoon is a coastal resort town situated in Central Queensland, Australia. The town has been relieved of its duties as the Local government centre for the Livingstone Shire due to the 2007/2008 Local Government Amalgamations....
, Central Queensland
Central Queensland

Central Queensland is an ambiguous geography division of Queensland that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn. Its major regional centre is Rockhampton, Queensland and the Capricorn Coast and the area extends west to the Central Highlands at Emerald, Queensland, north to Mackay, Queensland, and south to Gladstone, Que...
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 . The island is the largest of the eighteen islands in the Keppel Group, and covers an area of more than 14.5 square kilometres. The islands were named by Captain James Cook in 1770 after the then First Lord of the Admiralty, Admiral Augustus Keppel.

The island has always been attractive to visits from people, with centuries old midden
Midden

A midden, also known as a kitchen midden, or a shell heap, is a landfill. The word is of Scandinavian via Middle English derivation, but is used by archaeology worldwide to describe any kind of feature containing waste products relating to day-to-day human life....
s testifying to the quantity of seafood
Seafood

Seafood is any aquatic animal that is served as food and eaten by humans. Seafoods include fish and shellfish .The harvesting of seafood is known as fishing and the cultivation and farming of seafood is known as aquaculture, mariculture, or in the case of fish, fish farming....
 found in the surrounding waters. During its early European history, the island was used to raise sheep
Sheep

#REDIRECT Domestic sheep...
, however it is now a tourist destination. The tropical climate and numerous beach
Beach

File:MiamiSouthBeachPanoramaEdit.jpgA beach is a geology landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of Rock , such as sand, gravel, shingle beach, pebbles, or cobble....
es attract tourists from all points, and a number of accommodation houses cater for them, in particular the large Great Keppel Island Resort. The island is served by ferries
Ferry

A ferry is a form of transport, usually a boat or ship, used to carry passengers and their vehicles across a body of water. Ferries are also used to transport freight and even railroad cars....
 and aircraft
Aircraft

An aircraft is a vehicle which is able to flight by being supported by the air, or in general, the atmosphere, of a planet. Examples include balloons, airplanes and helicopters....
.

Much of the island is national park, and the island itself lies in the Keppel Bay Islands National Park
Keppel Bay Islands National Park

Keppel Bay Islands are part of both a national park and a scientific national park in Queensland , respectively 538 km and 518 km northwest of Brisbane....
.

It was once a resort owned by Contiki, dedicated to making it a "backpackers island", though has recently been taken over by Mercure Resort, making it more of a family resort.

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