Description
Daradgee is a rural town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.
Daradgee is a rural town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Daradgee had a population of 74 people.
History
The town name is a corruption of the original township name Daraji (used from 1905 to 1918) based on an Aboriginal word meaning burial ground.Daradgee Provisional School opened on 10 July 1911. In 1915 it became Daradgee State School. It closed on 14 December 1984.The final section of the North Coast railway line was the bridge at Daradgee across the Johnstone River. The bridge was opened on 8 December 1924, by the Queensland Premier, Ted Theodore, enabling rail travel from Cairns to Brisbane and from there to as far as Perth in Western Australia.In the 2016 census, Daradgee had a population of 74 people.
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Population: 1-100
Time zone: UTC +10:00
Area: 9.688 km2
Elevation: 11-50 metres
Town elevation: 12 m
Population number: 74
Local Government Area: Cassowary Coast Regional Council
Attribution
This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Daradgee, Queensland