Three Far North Queensland men have been sentenced to 10 years in prison, and another man 7 years, over the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in a sugar cane paddock north of Cairns.

Aaron Anau, Jeffrey Banu, Tom Ingui and Francis Peter, aged between 34 and 43, were earlier this month found guilty of raping the woman in the boot of a car in 2017.

The Cairns District Court heard the three men, from Boigu Island in the Torres Strait, were giving the girl a lift on a night out in December 2017, when she fell asleep in the back seat.

The victim woke up in the boot of the car to one of the men raping her while the others stood metres away.

The court heard the woman picked up her pants and tried to run through the sugar cane crop to escape the men, before she was grabbed and dragged back to the car.

The men then took the woman into the city and kicked her out of the car.

In sentencing, Judge Tracy Fantin said the men took advantage of their age and size against a vulnerable girl who was considerably smaller than them.

"She must have been terrified," Judge Fantin said.

Judge Fantin said the pack mentality of the case made it even more disturbing.

"You treated her as if she were nothing more than an object and used her for your own sexual gratification," she said.

The court heard the victim suffered severe emotional trauma, which damaged her relationships with friends and family and caused her to start chroming.

Banu was sentenced to seven years in prison because he did not physically rape the girl.

The other three men were sentenced to 10 years and will be eligible for parole after serving 80 per cent of their sentence.