Ball Bay

Ball Bay is a coastal settlement a few kilometres east of Seaforth and 30 km north-west of Mackay. On its western side there is the Cape Hillsborough National Park. The cape was named by James Cook on his Endeavour voyage, 1770, after Viscount Hillsborough, Secretary of State for Colonies. Cook did not name Ball Bay, and the origin of its name is apparently unrecorded.