Cumberland is a ghost town in the rural locality of Georgetown within the Shire of Etheridge in Queensland, Australia.

It is located approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of the town of Georgetown on the Gulf Developmental Road.

[1][2] Cumberland was born when gold was discovered there in 1872 and the first prospecting claim was registered in that same year.

[3] High levels of gold production continued through the 1880s peaking in 1886, and the town grew to a population of about 400 people.

To ensure a steady gradient for the heavy ore trucks, the tramway required cutting, embanking and bridges, which made it very expensive to build.

On 20 November 1901, two men, John "Scotty" Wilson and Edward Hollywood, were drinking at the hotel and then entered one of the bedrooms where they found a beer bottle and drank from it.