Keppel Bay
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Keppel Bay is a broad bay in Central Queensland
, Australia
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 Admiral Augustus Keppel of the British Royal Navy.
Central Queensland
Central Queensland is an ambiguous geographical division of Queensland that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn. Its major regional centre is Rockhampton and the Capricorn Coast and the area extends west to the Central Highlands at Emerald, north to the Mackay Regional...
, Australia
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at the mouth of the Fitzroy River. Cape Keppel is at the Eastern end of the bay.