Download coordinates as: Bellenden Ker is a rural town and locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

[4][2][3] The Bruce Highway enters the locality from the south (Babinda) and exits to the north (Deeral).

The range in turn was named on 22 June 1819 by Lieutenant Phillip Parker King, the hydrographer on the HM Colonial Cutter Mermaid after botanist John Bellenden Ker at the suggestion of Allan Cunningham who was the botanist on board the Mermaid.

[6][7] Bellenden Ker Post Office opened on 1 July 1936 and closed on 23 November 1974.

[8] Bellenden Ker Memorial Hall opened on Saturdy 5 December 1936 in the presence of over 300 people.