[1] The bay opens onto the Coral Sea, part of the South Pacific Ocean.

To the south of the bay is the Kutini-Payamu National Park.

[2] It was one of the Australian places named by James Cook during his voyage in HMS Endeavour northwards along the east coast in 1770; he named it on Friday 17 August 1770.

[3] Weymouth Bay was significant in the exploration of the Cape York Peninsula by Edmund Kennedy in 1848.

During their journey north from Rockingham Bay (near the present-day town of Cardwell), Kennedy left eight members of the expedition at Weymouth Bay, intending to pick them up later on the return by sea.