Dandaloo is a rural locality in New South Wales,[2][3] approximately 370 km north west from Sydney, about 15 km north east of Albert and about 40 km south west of Trangie. It is within the Narromine Council area.[4][5]
Dandaloo New South Wales | |
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![]() Bogan River on the Dandaloo-Trangie Road, Dandaloo. | |
![]() ![]() Dandaloo | |
Coordinates | 32°21′S 147°30′E |
Population | 37 (2016 census)[1] |
Postcode(s) | 2873 |
LGA(s) | Narromine Shire |
State electorate(s) | Barwon |
Federal division(s) | Parkes |
The locality was named by local landowner Florent Martel after a town in France,[6] and is the subject of the Banjo Paterson poem "An Idyll of Dandaloo".[7]
During the colonial era a village of Dandaloo was proposed where the Trangie-Melrose Road crosses the Bogan River. Although subdivision commenced, the proposal was revoked in June 1895 and the town site remains largely paddocks to this day, although a few houses, a church graveyard and disused post office building are scattered across the area.
During the Second World War, the Royal Australian Air Force built a satellite airfield seventeen kilometres west-north-west of its Elementary Flying Training School at RAAF Station Narromine. Known as RAAF Dandaloo, the former comprised a single 5,000' east-west gravel runway (and eight hideouts) with no other permanent above-ground structures. The site (32°10'60.00"S 148° 4'30.00"E) has since reverted to cultivation.
In 2006 Dandaloo had around 365 people, with the major industry being agriculture, forestry & fishing.[8]
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