Rockingham, Queensland


Rockingham is a town and a coastal locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Rockingham had a population of 107 people.

History

The bay takes its name from Rockingham Bay, which in turn was named on 8 June 1770 by Lieutenant James Cook of HMS Endeavour, after Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham and a former British Prime Minister.
The town was surveyed in 1883 by surveyor Cecil Twisden Bedford.