Bramston Beach

Bramston Beach is a coastal town and locality in Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

Bramston Beach is a coastal town and locality in Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Bramston Beach had a population of 174 people.

The town is named after Sir John Bramston, an early politician in Queensland.In March 1872, after the wreck of The Maria on Bramble reef, one of the groups of survivors landed their raft just to the south of Cooper Point. The Djiru people in the area were exceedingly hospitable in feeding and sheltering this group until Captain John Moresby arrived in the Basilisk to return them to the British settlements further south. This group of survivors spent much of their time at a Djiru village that was located at modern day Bramston Beach. Some Djiru villages in the area consisted of quite large huts with multiple entrances. W.T. Forster, a member of this group of castaways recorded his experiences with the Djiru in a pamphlet published later on in 1872. Forster and some officials returned later to thank the Djiru and give gifts of blankets, but the village was devoid of people due to the Native Police having visited the locality the previous day.The 1998 film, The Thin Red Line, was partially filmed on Bramston Beach.

At the 2006 census, Bramston Beach had a population of 196 people.In the 2011 census, Bramston Beach had a population of 154 people.