Bay View Heights
Residential suburb of Cairns, immediately west of Woree, formally named in 1970.
Beaconsfield
Residential suburb north-west of Mackay named after Beaconsfield sugar estate which had a crushing mill, c1882-93. Mackay Golf Club (1926) acquired land therein 1926 and moved its course from the town common in 1928. Residential subdivisions expanded to Beaconsfield from Andergrove in the 1990s.
Beames Brook
Gulf country station taken up in 1865 by Nat Buchanan but abandoned in 1872 because of constant strife with the Aborigines.
Bedarra Island
Resort island offshore from Wongaling and South Mission Beach. Bedarra has two small, select, resorts devoted to the luxury tourist market. In February 2011 the eye of Cyclone Yasi passed directly over Bedarra Island as a Category 5 tropical cyclone. The resorts were devastated, but after a major clean up and reinvestment, most have fully recovered.
Bedford
Cape , named by Cook on 4 August 1770, probably after John, 4th Duke, who had been First Lord of the Admiralty, 1744 to 1747.
Belgian Gardens
Residential suburb of Townsville. situated on the northern slopes of Castle Hill and running down to Rowes Bay. The area was originally settled in the 1860s by Chinese market gardeners and by a German (Henry Robinson), who was also a market gardener and ran a dairy herd on the town common, which was set aside as a dairying and cow pasture in 1870. The area, known as German Gardens on account of Robinson's farm, was part of Thuringowa shire. but the name was changed to Belgian Gardens during World War I and the suburb was transferred to Townsville city in 1918.
Bellenden Ker
Mount, the second highest mountain in Queensland.
Range, noted but not named by Cook in 1770. Mt Bellenden Ker was eventually named by Lieutenant Phillip Parker King RN, on 22 June 1819 aboard HM Colonial Cutter Mermaid after John Bellenden Ker, at the suggestion of Allan Cunningham, an accompanying botanist aboard HMCC Mermaid.
Township adjacent to the Bellenden Ker Range, was to be called Millville, in anticipation of the construction of a sugar mill. The mill was never built, and the area was named after the dominating mountain and range.