Brinsmead is a

suburb A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separate ...

Cairns Cairns (, ) is a city in Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. The population in June 2019 was 153,952, having grown on average 1.02% annually over the preceding five years. The city is the 5th-most-p ...

in the Cairns Region,

Far North Queensland Far North Queensland (FNQ) is the northernmost part of the Australian state of Queensland. Its largest city is Cairns and it is dominated geographically by Cape York Peninsula, which stretches north to the Torres Strait, and west to the Gulf C ...

, Australia. In the , Brinsmead had a population of 5,362 people.

Geography

Brinsmead is located west of the city centre of Cairns.

History

Brinsmead is situated in the Yidinji traditional

Aboriginal Aborigine, aborigine or aboriginal may refer to: *Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology * Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area *One of several groups of indigenous peoples, see ...

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 Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his '' ...

, a sugar plantation owner at

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who guided groups to see the Barron Falls, one of the first tourism ventures in the district. In the , Brinsmead had a population of 5,362 people.

Amenities

Freshwater Christian College Freshwater Christian College is a private Christian school located in the suburb of Brinsmead, in Cairns, in Far North Queensland, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country c ...

is located in Brinsmead.

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{{authority control Towns in Queensland Suburbs of Cairns 1975 establishments in Australia Populated places established in 1975