Lumholtz Queensland | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 18°17′28″S 145°53′53″E / 18.2911°S 145.8980°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 0 (SAL 2016)[1][2] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 4849 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 432.6 km2 (167.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | AEST (UTC+10:00) | ||||||||||||||
Location |
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LGA(s) | Cassowary Coast Region | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Hinchinbrook | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Kennedy | ||||||||||||||
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Lumholtz is a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.[3] In the 2021 census, Lumholtz had a population of 0 people.[4]
The terrain is mountainous with a number of named peaks (from north to south):
Almost all of the locality is within the Girringun National Park,[13] which was originally named Lumholtz National Park when it was created in 1991.[14] The exception is the 594-hectare (1,470-acre) pastoral property Gowrie & Rosevale in the south of the locality (18°22′40″S 145°51′17″E / 18.3777°S 145.8548°E), where the land use is grazing on native vegetation.[13]
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.
In the 2016 census, Lumholtz had a population of 0 people.[15]
In the 2021 census, Lumholtz had a population of 0 people.[4]
Tuckers Lookout is a lookout on Kirama Road (18°12′16″S 145°50′12″E / 18.20438°S 145.83677°E).[16][17]
Hinkler Falls is a waterfall on an unnamed creek (18°14′28″S 145°50′36″E / 18.2411°S 145.8433°E).[18][19]