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Undullah, Queensland

locality in Queensland, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ17040027 ↗
Source-derived summary

Undullah is a rural locality split between the City of Logan and the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Undullah had a population of 24 people.

Geography

Undullah is dominated by the Flinders Peak Group which rises towards its western boundary. Within the locality are the following mountains (from north to south):

Mount Elliott (27.8201°S 152.8254°E / -27.8201; 152.8254 (Mount Elliott)) 437 metres (1,434 ft)

Mount Wilbraham (27.8493°S 152.8572°E / -27.8493; 152.8572 (Mount Wilbraham)) 222 metres (728 ft)

Rocky Knob (27.8842°S 152.8543°E / -27.8842; 152.8543 (Rocky Knob)) 222 metres (728 ft)

Mount Flintoff (27.8863°S 152.8270°E / -27.8863; 152.8270 (Mount Flintoff)) 354 metres (1,161 ft)

Mount Joyce (27.9035°S 152.8466°E / -27.9035; 152.8466 (Mount Joyce)) 469 metres (1,539 ft)

Woollaman Creek, a tributary of Teviot Brook, is the major waterway in the suburb.

Very little of the area is developed with most of the rangelands covered by bush.

History

The Undullah is believed to be the word nandulla from the Bundjalung and/or Yuggera languages meaning the silver leafed iron bark (eucalyptus melanophloia).

Henry Herbert Elliott was an early settler who raised cattle.

Formerly in the Shire of Beaudesert, Undullah was split between Logan City and Scenic Rim Region following the local government amalgamations in March 2008.

On 20 May 2016, the eastern part of Undullah (within Logan City) was excised to create the new localities of Flinders Lakes and Monarch Glen and part of the new locality of Flagstone.

Demographics

In the 2016 census, Undullah had a population of 45 people.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Undullah, Queensland” as locality in Queensland, Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2008, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Undullah, Queensland and locality can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as locality in Queensland, Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17040027. Authority coordinates are -27.832, 152.852. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2008 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Undullah, Queensland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.