Lumholtz, Queensland

Lumholtz is a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Lumholtz had "no people or a very low population".

Geography

The terrain is mountainous with a number of named peaks :

Mount Alma
Mount Pershouse
Mount Thorn
Mount Creagh
Mount Macalister
Mount Arthur Scott
Tabletop Mountain

Almost all of the locality is within the Girringun National Park, which was originally named Lumholtz National Park when it was created in 1991. The exception is the pastoral property Gowrie & Rosevale in the south of the locality, where the land use is grazing on native vegetation.

History

The locality is believed to have taken its name from Carl Sofus Lumholtz, a Norwegian traveller and anthropologist, who spent his time working in south and northeast Australia as an ethnographer and field researcher during the 1880s.

Demographics

In the, Lumholtz had "no people or a very low population".
In the, Lumholtz had "no people or a very low population".

Attractions

Tuckers Lookout is a lookout on Kirama Road.
Hinkler Falls is a waterfall on an unnamed creek.