Lumholtz is a rural

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in the Cassowary Coast Region,

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

Geography

The terrain is mountainous with a number of named peaks (from north to south): * 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

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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 ().

References

{{Cassowary Coast Region Cassowary Coast Region Localities in Queensland