Newlands is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.

[1] Starvation Creek enters from Eungella Hinterland to the east, and flows north-west to become the Bowen River.

The Newlands coal mine is in the south of the locality.

[3] The Bowen Developmental Road (State Route 77) runs through from north to south-west.

The nearest government primary schools are:[5] The nearest government secondary schools are:[5] However, some students living near the centre of the locality would be too distant from these primary and/or secondary schools for a daily commute; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school.