Brinsmead, Queensland

Brinsmead is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Far North Queensland, 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 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.
Amenities.
Freshwater Christian College is located in Brinsmead.