Daradgee, Queensland


Daradgee is a town and a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. As of the 2016 Australian Census, Daradgee had a population of 74 people.

Geography

The locality is bounded in the south-east by the Johnstone River. Victory Creek, a tributary of the Johnstone River, flows through the locality. The land is relatively flat and low-lying and is used for cropping including sugarcane and bananas.
The Bruce Highway runs through the south-west corner of the locality while the North Coast railway line runs from south to north through the locality. There is a cane tramway to deliver harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mills.

History

The town name is a corruption of the original township name Daraji based on an Aboriginal word meaning burial ground.
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.