abstract:Great Keppel Island (also known as Ganumi BaraRowland, Michael Myths and Non-Myths: Frontier 'Massacres' in Australian History — The Woppaburra of the Keppel Islands The Australian Public Intellectual Network (originally published in Colonial Post: Journal of Australian Studies no 81, 2004)) lies 15 kilometres from the coast off Yeppoon along the Capricorn Coast of Central Queensland, Australia. The island is the largest of the eighteen islands in the Keppel Group, and covers an area of more than 14.