Rockingham is a rural town and coastal locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

[4] All of the land along the coastline is part of the Gulngay National Park.

[4] The remainder of the locality is used for agriculture, mostly the growing of sugarcane with some grazing on native vegetation.

[4] 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.

[2] The town was surveyed in 1883 by surveyor Cecil Twisden Bedford.