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Keppel Bay is a broad bay in 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....
 at the mouth of the Fitzroy River. Cape Keppel is at the Eastern end of the bay.

The bay and the nearby Keppel Islands were named by Captain Cook when he was there on 27 May 1770, after Augustus Keppel.








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Keppel Bay is a broad bay in 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....
 at the mouth of the Fitzroy River. Cape Keppel is at the Eastern end of the bay.

The bay and the nearby Keppel Islands were named by Captain Cook when he was there on 27 May 1770, after Augustus Keppel.

See also

  • Cape Manifold
    Cape Manifold

    Cape Manifold is a coastal headland in central Queensland, Australia.It was named by Captain Cook when he saw it from Keppel Bay on 27 May 1770, "from the Number of high Hills over it"....