Tam O'Shanter is a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

[3] [4] From the mountain, the locality is bounded to the south-west by the Tam O'Shanter Range.

[5] The locality presumably takes its name from Tam O'Shanter Point on the coastline nearby.

The point was named by Captain Owen Stanley of HMS Rattlesnake after the barque Tam O'Shanter, which carried Edmund Kennedy's ill-fated expedition to North Queensland in 1848.

[6] TheTam O'Shanter, of 270 tons (bm) and homeport Liverpool, had been launched at Workington in 1836.