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Keppel Bay
Keppel Bay is a bay in Central Queensland, Australia at the mouth of the Fitzroy River on the coast of the Coral Sea. Extent Keppel Bay extends from Station Point on Curtis Island () in the Gladstone Region to Zilzie Point at Zilzie () in the Shire of Livingstone. Islands The named islands in Keppel Bay from north to south are: * Round Rock off Zilzie () * Flat Rock off Coorooman () * Girt Island off Keppel Sands / Joskleigh () *Shelly Knob off Curtis Island () *Satellite Island in the Fitzroy River mouth off Port Alma () *Mackenzie Island in the Fitzroy River mouth off Thompson Point () *Egg Island in the Fitzroy River mouth off Thompson Point () *Mud Island in the Fitzroy River mouth off Thompson Point () *Balaclava Island in the Fitzroy River mouth off The Narrows () Despite the name, the islands in Keppel Bay Islands National Park are not within Keppel Bay but are to the north and east of the bay. History Keppel Bay was named by Captain Cook when he was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Queensland
Central Queensland is an ambiguous geographical division of Queensland ( a state in Australia) that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn. Its major regional centre is Rockhampton. The region extends from the Capricorn Coast west to the Central Highlands at Emerald, north to the Mackay Regional Council southern boundary, and south to Gladstone. The region is also known as Capricornia. It is one of Australia's main coal exporting regions. At the 2011 Australian Census the region recorded a total population from the six local government areas of 233,931. Industry Economically, Central Queensland is an important centre of primary sector industries, particularly for food and fibre production. Central Queensland includes the Bowen Basin which is rich in high quality coking coal, the Port of Gladstone produces 40% of the state's export earnings, the Fitzroy River is the second-largest river system in Australia and commands significant water resources such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Alma, Queensland
Port Alma is a coastal town, locality and port in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Port Alma had a population of 0 people. Geography Port Alma ia approximately from Rockhampton, at the south end of the Fitzroy River delta. The locality is bounded to the north by the Fitzroy River, to the north-east by Keppel Bay and to the east and south-east by Raglan Creek. The town is situated on the east of the locality on the western bank of Raglan Creek. Much of the locality is almost at sea level and is mostly undeveloped marshland. There is one small hill on Casuarina Island called Sandfly Hillock () which rises to above sea level. Islands Casuarina Creek and a number of other small creeks form the Fitzroy River delta, which creates a number of low-lying islands, shoals, and channels within the locality including: * Alligator Passage () * Casuarina Island () * Dunlop Island () * Egg Sand, a marine bank () * Jacks Island () * Mosquito Island () * Pugh Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pumpkin Island
Pumpkin Island is a privately owned island in Keppel Bay on the southern Great Barrier Reef in Australia.The world's most expensive private islands , ''''. It is off the coast from Yeppoon and has an area of 6.1 Hectares. In 2012 it was listed as the world's sixth most expensive private island. The island is owned and operated by Sojourn Properties Pty Ltd, a Queensland-based company and run by Sojourn Retreats. The resort operated using wind and solar power systems and filtered rain water for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Keppel Bay is a bay in Central Queensland, Australia at the mouth of the Fitzroy River on the coast of the Coral Sea. Extent Keppel Bay extends from Station Point on Curtis Island () in the Gladstone Region to Zilzie Point at Zilzie () i ... (to the south) on 27 May 1770, "from the Number of high Hills over it". He spelt it both Manyfold and Manifold in different journal entries; today Manifold is usual. References Manifold {{Queensland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Keppel Island
Great Keppel Island (''Woppaburra, Wop-Pa, Wapparaburra'') lies from the coast off Yeppoon in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Capricorn Coast of Central Queensland. The island's traditional owners are the Woppaburra people. As the largest of the eighteen islands in the Keppel Group, Wop-Pa covers an area of 1308 hectares. It is within the local government area of Shire of Livingstone (between 2008 and 2013, it was within the Rockhampton Region). The tropical climate and numerous beaches attract tourists from all points, and a number of accommodation villages and houses cater for tourists including Air BnB Houses. There are 17 white sandy beaches with some of the highest cover of hard coral reefs on the Great Barrier Reef. The coral diversity of these reefs matches that of the Whitsundays with clear waters most of the year around. Transport The island is served by ferries and aircraft landing at Grand Keppel Airport. At one point major ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the middle decades of the 17th century, and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. From the mid 18th century, it was the world's most powerful navy until the Second World War. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority globally. Owing to this historical prominence, it is common, even among non-Britons, to re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel
Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, PC (25 April 17252 October 1786) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1755 to 1782. He saw action in command of various ships, including the fourth-rate , during the War of the Austrian Succession. He went on to serve as Commodore on the North American Station and then Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica Station during the Seven Years' War. After that he served as Senior Naval Lord and then Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet. During the American Revolutionary War Keppel came into a notorious dispute with Sir Hugh Palliser over Palliser's conduct as his second-in-command at the inconclusive Battle of Ushant in July 1778; the dispute led to Keppel and Palliser facing courts martial, which acquitted both of them. During the final years of the American Revolutionary War Keppel served as First Lord of the Admiralty. Early life A member of a leading Whig aristocratic family, (which had come to Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Cook
James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years' War and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the St. Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec, which brought him to the attention of the Admiralty and the Royal Society. This acclaim came at a crucial moment for the direction of British overseas exploration, and it led to his commission in 176 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keppel Bay Islands National Park
Keppel Bay Islands are part of both a national park and a scientific national park in Queensland, Australia, respectively 538 km and 518 km northwest of Brisbane. Keppel Bay Islands National Park includes 13 islands, positioned in Keppel Bay, off the coast of Yeppoon and Emu Park on the Capricorn Coast. The largest island in the Keppel Group, Great Keppel Island, is a popular tourist attraction and not part of the national park. North Keppel Island From the early 1950s to about 1994, a small resort of about twelve cabins on North Keppel Island was operated by Mr Walls, a former train driver. “Old” Mr Walls was assisted by his daughter, Geraldine, and her husband, who also lived on the island. His son Tim Walls operated the boat service to the island, firstly in a boat called the Somerset, out of Ross Creek, Yeppoon, then in a larger boat called the Keppel Star, out of the Roslyn Bay Boat Harbour. More recently the island has been run by the Queensland Parks and W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Narrows
__NOTOC__ The Narrows is the tidal strait separating the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It connects the Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay and forms the principal channel by which the Hudson River empties into the Atlantic Ocean. It has long been considered to be the maritime "gateway" to New York City and historically has been one of the most important entrances into the harbors of the Port of New York and New Jersey. History Pre-history The Narrows was most likely formed after deposition of the Harbor Hill Moraine about 18,000 years prior to the end of the last ice age. Previously, Staten Island and Brooklyn were connected and the Hudson River emptied into the ocean through the present course of the Raritan River, by taking a more westerly course through parts of present-day northern New Jersey, along the eastern side of the Watchung Mountains to Bound Brook, New Jersey, and then on into the Atlantic Ocean via Raritan Bay. A b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thompson Point, Queensland
Thompson Point is a coastal locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the Thompson Point had a population of 10 people. It was the site of a short-lived town and port called Broadmount. Geography The locality is bounded to the east by the Coral Sea and to the south by the Fitzroy River which enters the Coral Sea at the south-east of the locality. There are also two neighbourhoods in the locality: * Gridiron () *Eureka Flat () The undeveloped town of Broadmount is within the locality on the northern bank of the Fitzroy River (). The locality contains the following mountains (from west to east): * Mount Kilner () *Broadmount () * West Arm Hill () * Red Hill () Thompson Point has the following ranges: * Flat Top Range extending from Nankin into the north-west of the locality () * Ross Range extending from Nankin/Joskeleigh into the north-east of the locality through to Red Hill () A number of creeks flow through the locality (from west to east by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
