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Yeppoon is a coast
Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
al resort
Resort

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 town situated 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

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. The town has been relieved of its duties as the administrative
Local government

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 centre for the Livingstone Shire due to the 2007/2008 Local Government Amalgamations. Located on Keppel Bay
Keppel Bay

Keppel Bay is a broad bay in Central Queensland, Australia at the mouth of the Fitzroy River, Queensland. Cape Keppel is at the Eastern end of the bay....
, at the 2006 census
Census in Australia

The Australian census is administered by the Australian Bureau of Statistics every five years. The most recent census was conducted on 8 August 2006....
, Yeppoon had a population of 13,284.

Geography
Yeppoon is the major town along the tourist strip of the Capricorn Coast, and is around 700 km
Kilometre

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 north of the state capital, Brisbane
Brisbane

Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....
, and 40 km from its nearest regional centre, the city of Rockhampton
Rockhampton, Queensland

Rockhampton is a regional city and Local Government Areas of Australia located in Queensland, Australia. Rockhampton is the largest urban centre in Central Queensland with the 2006 census recording the Rockhampton Statistical Subdivision population to be 74,530 people....
.






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Yeppoon is a coast
Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
al resort
Resort

A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation, attracting visitors for holidays or vacations. Resorts are places, towns or sometimes commercial establishment operated by a single company....
 town situated 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....
. The town has been relieved of its duties as the administrative
Local government

Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a state. The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government....
 centre for the Livingstone Shire due to the 2007/2008 Local Government Amalgamations. Located on Keppel Bay
Keppel Bay

Keppel Bay is a broad bay in Central Queensland, Australia at the mouth of the Fitzroy River, Queensland. Cape Keppel is at the Eastern end of the bay....
, at the 2006 census
Census in Australia

The Australian census is administered by the Australian Bureau of Statistics every five years. The most recent census was conducted on 8 August 2006....
, Yeppoon had a population of 13,284.

Geography


Yeppoon is the major town along the tourist strip of the Capricorn Coast, and is around 700 km
Kilometre

The kilometre , symbol km is a Units of measurement of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres.Slang terms for kilometre include click and kay ....
 north of the state capital, Brisbane
Brisbane

Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....
, and 40 km from its nearest regional centre, the city of Rockhampton
Rockhampton, Queensland

Rockhampton is a regional city and Local Government Areas of Australia located in Queensland, Australia. Rockhampton is the largest urban centre in Central Queensland with the 2006 census recording the Rockhampton Statistical Subdivision population to be 74,530 people....
. Long stretches of 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 are the main tourist attraction, while the islands of the Keppel Group, in particular Great Keppel Island
Great Keppel Island

Great Keppel Island lies 15 kilometres from the coast off Yeppoon, Queensland, Central Queensland, Australia . The island is the largest of the eighteen islands in the Keppel Group, and covers an area of more than 14.5 square kilometres....
, are another drawcard. The Rosslyn Bay boat harbour caters for professional and privately owned vessels and was once the centre of a thriving commercial fishing industry. Yeppoon is a very popular place to raise a young family as well as those seeking a sea change. Yeppoon's rapid population growth is a reflection of its very popular conditions.

North of the town is the Byfield State Forest
State forest

State forest is a term with differing meanings in different countries.*In Australia, it refers to forest that is protected by state laws, rather than by the Government of Australia....
 and National Park
Byfield National Park

Byfield is a national park in Queensland , 35 km north of Yeppoon....
. The State Forest consists largely of pine
Pine

Pines are Pinophyta trees in the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species....
 plantations and is home to the Byfield Fern (Bowenia Serrulata). The National Park is largely coastal and sand dune based geographical areas. It is popular with Four Wheel Drive
Four Wheel Drive

The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, more often known as Four Wheel Drive or just FWD, was founded in 1909 in Clintonville, Wisconsin as the Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich....
 enthusiasts.

History


Pineapple
Pineapple

Pineapple is the common name for an edible tropical plant and also its fruit. It is native to the southern part of Brazil, and Paraguay. This herbaceous plant perennial plant grows to tall with 30 or more trough-shaped and pointed leaves long, surrounding a thick plant stem....
s and sugar
Sugar

Sugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sorghum, sugar maple , and in many other sources....
 were the major industries of the early town. The first Europe
Europe

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an residents arrived in 1865. Along with other sugar growing areas of Australia, South Sea Islander
South Sea Islander

The Australian label South Sea Islanders refers to the Australian descendants of people from the more than 80 islands in the Western Pacific including the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in Melanesia and the Loyalty Islands, Samoa, Kiribati and Tuvalu in Polynesia and Micronesia who were recruited between the mid to late 19th century as labour...
s were used as labourers on the sugar plantations, often without their consent (see blackbirding
Blackbirding

Blackbirding refers to the recruitment of people through trickery and kidnappings to work on plantations, particularly the sugar cane plantations of Queensland and Fiji....
). No sugar is grown in the area today, and pineapple production has declined significantly in recent years.

Education


Yeppoon is home to prominent Rugby league
Rugby league

Rugby league football is a competitive Full-contact sport team sport played with a spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field....
 breeding ground St. Brendan's College
St. Brendan's College

This article is about the school in Yeppoon, Queensland, Australia. For the school in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, please see St Brendan's, Killarney...
. Professional players Paul Bowman, Jamie Simpson
Jamie Simpson

Jamie Simpson born 6 September 1986 in Australia is a rugby league player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League. He currently plays as a Rugby_league_positions#Centre or on the Rugby_league_positions#Wing, but was successful as a Rugby_league_positions#lock and Rugby_league_positions#Stand-off in his schoolboy years at S...
, Matthew Scott
Matthew Scott

Matthew Scott is an Australian rugby league player for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League competition....
, Tom Hewitt
Tom Hewitt

Tom Hewitt is an actor and Broadway theatre stage performer, and a native of Victor, Montana. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with the Professional Theatre Training Program's first class in 1981, Tom Hewitt worked with such regional powerhouses as Minneapolis, Minnesota Guthrie Theatre, the Arena Stage in Washingto...
, Julian O'Neill
Julian O'Neill

Julian O'Neill is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. A talented Rugby league positions#Fullback and goal-kicker, he enjoyed a 14-year top-grade career with several clubs in both Australia and England, which included two New South Wales Rugby League premierships, a Challenge Cup victory as well as state and n...
, Shane Martenee, PJ Marsh
PJ Marsh

Peter-John "PJ" Marsh is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Brisbane Broncos of the National Rugby League. He has also played representative rugby league for Queensland state rugby league team in Rugby League State of Origin....
 and Dave Taylor
David Taylor (rugby league)

Dave Taylor is an Australian professional rugby league player, currently playing for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League competition....
 are all St. Brendan's alumni.

Growth

Yeppoon has the 3rd highest population expansion rate in Australia, and has undergone a very large expansion in recent years including many new residential estates and various shopping centers either under construction or recently completed. During the last population count Yeppoon was recorded as having just over 10 thousand people but now figures are showing that Yeppoon's population is now well over the 15,000 mark.

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