Mount Surprise is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Etheridge, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Mount Surp…Mount Surprise is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Etheridge, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Mount Surprise had a population of 138 people. The town is located in the Gulf Savannah in Far North Queensland on the Gulf Developmental Road, 1,722 kilometres north west of the state capital, Brisbane and 285 kilometres west of the regional centre of Cairns.