Dandaloo

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
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]

Dandaloo Rd

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 Although subdivision commenced, the proposal was revoked in June 1895 and the town site remains largely paddocks to this day, although a few houses, a church graveyard and disused post office building are scattered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