Description
Brinsmead is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Far North Queensland, Australia.
Brinsmead is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Far North Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Brinsmead had a population of 5,362 people.
History
Brinsmead is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country.
The suburb takes its name from the Brinsmead Gap, a topographical feature between the hills of the Whitfield Range, in turn named after Horace George Brinsmead, a sugar plantation owner at Freshwater who guided groups to see the Barron Falls, one of the first tourism ventures in the district.
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Population: 1,001 - 10,000
Time zone: UTC +10:00
Area: 5.119 km2
Elevation: 11 to 50 metres
Town elevation: 22 m
Population number: 5,362
Local Government Area: Cairns Regional Council
Attribution
This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Brinsmead, Queensland