Lumholtz, Queensland

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

• Mount Alma (18°11′24″S 145°50′54″E / 18.1901°S 145.8483°E / -18.1901; 145.8483 (Mount Alma)) 861 metres (2,825 ft)^[3][4]
• Mount Pershouse (18°13′25″S 145°47′44″E / 18.2236°S 145.7955°E / -18.2236; 145.7955 (Mount Pershouse)) 976 metres (3,202 ft)^[3][5]
• Mount Thorn (18°16′13″S 145°48′15″E / 18.2703°S 145.8041°E / -18.2703; 145.8041 (Mount Thorn)) 926 metres (3,038 ft)^[3][6]
• Mount Creagh (18°16′21″S 145°51′09″E / 18.2724°S 145.8526°E / -18.2724; 145.8526 (Mount Creagh)) 861 metres (2,825 ft)^[3][7]
• Mount Macalister (18°18′00″S 145°56′30″E / 18.3001°S 145.9416°E / -18.3001; 145.9416 (Mount Macalister)) 1,058 metres (3,471 ft)^[3][8]
• Mount Arthur Scott (18°23′22″S 146°02′47″E / 18.3894°S 146.0464°E / -18.3894; 146.0464 (Mount Arthur Scott)) 914 metres (2,999 ft)^[3][9]
• Tabletop Mountain (18°24′16″S 145°49′17″E / 18.4044°S 145.8214°E / -18.4044; 145.8214 (Tabletop Mountain)) 672 metres (2,205 ft)^[3][10]

Almost all of the locality is within the Girringun National Park,^[11] which was originally named Lumholtz National Park when it was created in 1991.^[12] 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 / -18.3777; 145.8548 (Gowrie & Rosevale (pastoral property))), where the land use is grazing on native vegetation.^[11]

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 "no people or a very low population".^[13]

In the 2021 census, Lumholtz had "no people or a very low population".^[1]