Download coordinates as: Groper Creek is a coastal town and rural locality in the Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia.

[1] The locality is bounded by the Burdekin River to the north and by the Coral Sea to the east.

[4] The Speter Island Cattle Farm is a 235.122-hectare (581.00-acre) farm that includes 65 hectares (160 acres) on the mainland (directly south of the town) and extends across the creek Groper Creek onto Peters Island where there are 140 hectares (350 acres) of usable land.

[7] In 1873 the Queensland Government reserved 10 acres 1 rood for a landing place on Heath's Creek.

So in 1921 a new landing area was established on Groper Creek which was a natural inlet off the Coral Sea that became a distributary of the Burdekin River following the floods in 1918.

[16] For many years, the settlement of Groper Creek was not an official place name, but was a widely used and well-known local name.