Dandaloo Explained

Type:	town
Dandaloo
State:	nsw
Coordinates:	-32.35°N 177°W
Pushpin Label Position:	right
Pop:	37
Postcode:	2873
Lga:	Narromine Shire
Stategov:	Barwon
Fedgov:	Parkes

Dandaloo is a rural locality in New South Wales,^{[1] [2]}

Notes and References

1. ◾Atchison, J F. “The Counties of New South Wales.” The Australian Surveyor, vol. 30, no. 1, Mar. 1980, pp. 39–42.
2. Web site: Oz Directory Online . 29 December 2012 . 8 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140108065354/http://ozdirectory.info/?s=dandaloo&searchtype=town . dead .
3. http://www.oktravel.com.au/au/nsw/narromine/dandaloo/ OK travel
4. http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/paterson-a-b-banjo/an-idyll-of-dandaloo-0001009 An Idyll of Dandaloo
5. http://www.oktravel.com.au/au/nsw/narromine/dandaloo/ Dandaloo
6. Robert McLean, The New atlas of Australia : the complete work containing over one hundred maps and full descriptive geography of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, together with numerous illustrations and copious indices (Sydney :J. Sands, [1886) Map 14.</ref> approximately 370&nbsp;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.^{[2] [3]}

   The locality was named by local landowner Florent Martel after a town in France, and is the subject of the Banjo Paterson poem "An Idyll of Dandaloo".^[4]

   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 Although subdivision commenced, the proposal was revoked in June 1895 and the town site remains largely paddocks to this day, although a few houses, a church graveyard and disused post office building are scattered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.^[5]

   References