Capricorn region
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Capricorn Coast Queensland |
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Sunrise over Great Keppel Island
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 Capricorn Coast
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| Coordinates | 23°15′22.51″S 150°49′44.6″E / 23.2562528°S 150.829056°ECoordinates: 23°15′22.51″S 150°49′44.6″E / 23.2562528°S 150.829056°E |
| Postcode(s) | 4702, 4703, 4710 |
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| LGA(s) | Rockhampton Region |
| State electorate(s) | Keppel |
| Federal Division(s) | Capricornia |
The Capricorn Coast is a stretch of coastline in Central Queensland, Australia and is part of the Shire of Livingstone (formerly part of Rockhampton Region). The region straddles the Tropic of Capricorn, after which it is named.
The Capricorn Coast is over 150 kilometres from end to end yet comparatively small in population, with dozens of towns and islands scattered along its length. The region has a rich history going back to the 1850s.
Centred on the town of Yeppoon, the Capricorn Coast has retail and service amenities that rival larger towns, and twenty-five minutes away is , the largest shopping centre between Maroochydore and Cairns, as well as many other shopping precincts around the city.
The Capricorn Coast offers five star resorts, historical towns, snorkelling, bush retreats, beaches, rainforest retreats, island adventures, bushwalking, wildlife sanctuaries, a marina and a crocodile farm.
While the Capricorn Coast has no registered geographic boundaries, it is largely defined as the coastal area cradled between Rockhampton in the west, Keppel Bay to the east, Thompson Point on the Fitzroy River in the south, and Shoalwater Bay in the north. Beyond Shoalwater Bay, the remote community of Stanage (or Stanage Bay) is often defined as part of the Capricorn Coast as well.
An alternative definition suggests that the Capricorn Coast extends south to include Gladstone and the towns of Agnes Water and 1770, however the bulk of reference materials refer to that region north of Bundaberg as the Discovery Coast or the Gladstone Region, and that north of Gladstone, the string of seaside communities surrounding Rockhampton and centred upon Yeppoon, is called the Capricorn Coast.
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