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The "Sapphire" was the first vessel to regularly take tourists from Bundaberg to Lady Musgrave Island. The vessel was owned and operated by Eric Keppel Hansen. Once a lighthouse keeper, later a commercial fisherman, Keppel commenced this tourism venture to Lady Musgrave Island, one of the most southerly of Queensland's coral islands. Today, Lady Musgrave Island, a cay in the Bunker Group, is in the Mackay-Capricorn Section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [Lineage: Eric Keppel Hansen was the grandson of Johannes Hansen who emigrated from Schurenhausen, Schleswig-Holstein to Brisbane in 1865. He was married to Esme Lister, the granddaughter of Caroline Wilmelmine Stehbens (or Stäben) who had emigrated from Wöhrden, Schleswig-Holstein to Maryborough, Queensland in 1865 also.]
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