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The Singing Ship monument

Home of the famous Singing Ship Monument, the Emu Park land area was first discovered by Captain James Cook in 1770. It overlooks the islands of Keppel Bay, including the Great Keppel Island. This small, peaceful town is a popular tourist spot. It has won several tourism awards, and features fishing, surfing, boating, and unspoiled beaches. Download high resolution version (960x1280, 180 KB)The Singing Ship monument in Emu Park, Queensland for Capt. ... Download high resolution version (960x1280, 180 KB)The Singing Ship monument in Emu Park, Queensland for Capt. ... British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... 1770 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Keppel Bay Islands is both a national park and a scientific national park in Queensland (Australia), respectively 538 km and 518 km northwest of Brisbane. ... Great Keppel Island lies 15 kilometres from the coast of Central Queensland, Australia. ... A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Beaches make popular tourist resorts Tourist redirects here; for the album by Athlete, see Tourist (album) Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ... Surfing outside Kaneohe Bay, Hawai‘i. ... Boating is the activity of traveling by boat. ... 90 mile beach Australia A beach or strand is a geological formation consisting of loose rock particles such as sand, shingle, cobble, or even shell along the shoreline of a body of water. ...

History

Emu Park's European history dates to the 1860s when the Jardine family established a cattle grazing property south of the current town, at Zilzie, an anagram of Lizzie Jardine.

Emu Park township was established in the 1870s when several Rockhampton families built seaside holiday houses on the hills overlooking the two beaches that are a feature of the town - Fisherman's Beach and Pine Beach. Emu Park was connected to Rockhampton by train in 1888 and became a popular, but fairly select, seaside resort from that time on. A branch to Yeppoon, further to the north was opened in 1910. Mayor Margaret Strelow Area 187 km² Population 58,382 (2001) Time zone UTC + 10 Latitude Longitude 23° 22. ... The seafront of Torquay, a seaside resort in Devon, England. ... Yeppoon is a coastal resort town situated in Central Queensland, Australia. ...

By the 1920s the town boasted two large hotels, a cinema, court house, state primary school, public library, shops and many guest houses for vistors. A small pier was opened by Mrs Bruce, wife of the Prime Minister, Stanely Bruce, in 1926 and Bell Park, a shady park on the shores of Fisherman's Beach was established in the 1930s.

The railway to Rockhampton closed in the 1960s due to declining passenger numbers, although the line to Yeppoon still operates.

External links

• Walkabout - Emu Park