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Shoalwater Bay is less than 100km away from Yeppoon and is a part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. It is also a training facility where testing of laser guided missiles and experimental munitions is carried out. Yeppoon is a coastal resort town situated in Central Queensland, Australia. ... The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australias Great Barrier Reef from activities that would damage it. ... Beam-riding guidance leads a missile to its target by means of radar or a laser beam. ... A missile (British English: miss-isle; U.S. English: missl) is, in general, a projectile—that is, something thrown or otherwise propelled. ... Materiel (from the French for material) is the equipment and supplies in Military and commercial supply chain management. ...


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S.P.I.P.A Shoalwater Bay (279 words)
The Shoalwater Bay Tribe is located on the Washington’s southwest coast at Willapa Bay.
The non-treaty Indians of Shoalwater Bay made their living by fishing, crabbing and oystering, selling their surplus to canneries much the same as non-Indians.
Shoalwater Bay was originally the wintering place of both the Chinook and Lower Chehalis people.
Shoalwater Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (455 words)
Shoalwater Bay is a large bay on the central coast of Queensland, Australia, located 100 km north of the coastal town of Yeppoon and 628 km north-north-west of the state capital, Brisbane.
The bay is bounded by the Torilla Peninsula to the west and the Warginburra Peninsula and Leicester and Townshend islands to the east.
The Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area encompasses 454,500 hectares (4,545 km²), which includes the Warginburra Peninsula, the Torilla Peninsula east of the Stanage Bay Road, Townshend and Leicester Islands, and a sizable chunk of the Shoalwater Bay hinterland north of the village of Byfield.
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