Editing Daintree National Park (section)

==Cape Tribulation section==
[[Cape Tribulation, Queensland|Cape Tribulation]] also lies in the park.<ref name="discover" /> Originally the cape belonged to Cape Tribulation National Park from 1981 but was amalgamated into Daintree National Park in 1983.<ref name="xqnp"/> This section covers {{convert|17000|ha|abbr=on}} including the coastal range ([[Thornton Peak]], Mt Hemmant, and Mt Sorrow, going north from the Daintree river) and contains Australia's last extensive stands of lowland rainforest.<ref name="xqnp"/> It has extensive (and relatively) unspoiled beaches from [[Thornton Beach, Queensland|Thornton Beach]] to Cape Tribulation beach – fringed with the increasingly rare littoral (beachside) rainforest.  The Daintree river is the southern boundary for the region - reinforced by the need to take a cable ferry across the Daintree river. Much of the coastal flatlands, especially to the south of the Alexandra range, and in [[Cow Bay, Queensland|Cow Bay]], were cleared for agriculture in the late 1800s with a major clearing push in the 1970s.  A lot of this has since recovered or has been settled.
[[File:DaintreeRiverFerryOct242024 04.jpg|thumb|[[Daintree River Ferry]] and [[Daintree River]]]]
The Daintree National Park's [[traditional owners]] are the Eastern [[Kuku Yalanji]] Aboriginal people. Many of the natural features of the landscape hold spiritual significance for the traditional owners.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daintree National Park |publisher=Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing |url=http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/daintree/ |access-date=13 June 2013 |archive-date=10 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130610012702/http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/daintree/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> One of these features is the location of the [[bouncing stones]] at Thornton Beach. The rocks here are hornfels, metamorphic rocks resulting from the effects of a major intrusion of granite that produced the coastal mountains.<ref name="explore" /> They are very elastic, when bounced on the local rock pavement; The park contains the [[Mossman River]] to the south, the [[Daintree River]] and the [[Bloomfield River]] to the north.

=== Geography ===
This section of the park includes the entirety of the Dagmar [[Suburbs and localities (Australia)|locality]], in the [[Shire of Douglas]], [[Queensland]].  The section also includes the northern and eastern parts of the adjacent Noah locality.

==== Dagmar ====
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| lga                 = Shire of Douglas
| stategov            = [[Electoral district of Cook|Cook]]
| fedgov              = [[Division of Leichhardt|Leichhardt]]
| near-n              = [[Bloomfield, Queensland|Bloomfield]]
| near-ne             = [[Bloomfield, Queensland|Bloomfield]]
| near-e              = [[Noah, Queensland|Noah]]
| near-se             = [[Stewart Creek Valley, Queensland|Stewart Creek Valley]]<br/>[[Upper Daintree, Queensland|Upper Daintree]]
| near-s              = [[Dedin, Queensland|Dedin]]
| near-sw             = [[Dedin, Queensland|Dedin]]
| near-w              = [[Bloomfield, Queensland|Bloomfield]]
| near-nw             = [[Dedin, Queensland|Dedin]]
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The [[Daintree River]] forms the locality of Dagmar's north-eastern, northern, and north-western boundaries, while the [[Daintree Range]] loosely forms its southern boundary.<ref>{{google maps|url=https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Dagmar+QLD+4873/@-16.1731626,145.0824865,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x699d4d07479d7b23:0x400eef17f2074d0!8m2!3d-16.1679284!4d145.2272404|title=Dagmar, Queensland|access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref><ref name="globe">{{Queensland Globe|access-date=27 October 2021|notes=layers: locality, ranges, watercourse}}</ref>

The locality takes its name from the ''Heights of Dagmar'' (now the Dagmar Range), which was named by explorer [[George Elphinstone Dalrymple]] in his [[George Elphinstone Dalrymple##North East Coast expedition of 1873|1873 exploration of the North East Coast of Queensland]].<ref>{{cite news|date=28 August 1937|title=Many Things.|page=8|newspaper=[[Cairns Post]]|issue=11,090|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41794957|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=27 October 2021}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Citation|author1=Dalrymple|first=George Elphinstone|title=Narrative and reports of the Queensland North-East coast expedition, 1873|year=1874|url=https://archive.org/details/NarrativeAndReportsOfTheQueenslandNorthEastCoastExpedition1873/page/n17/mode/2up|pages=19, para 260|publication-date=1874|publisher=[[Queensland Parliament]]|access-date=27 October 2021}}</ref> In his report to the Queensland Parliament, Dalrymyple described the range as "jungle-clad hills" but he provided no explanation as to the choice of name.<ref name=":3" /> Others have claimed he so named it because of a resemblance to the [[Dagmar Cross]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mossman|url=https://www.douglashistory.org.au/timelines/mossman.html|access-date=2021-10-27|website=The Douglas Shire Historical Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808090515/http://www.douglashistory.org.au/timelines/mossman.html |archive-date=8 August 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-03-18|title=Far North Queensland Place names - d|url=http://queenslandhistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/far-north-queensland-place-names-d.html|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Queensland History|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309164601/http://queenslandhistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/far-north-queensland-place-names-d.html |archive-date=9 March 2016 }}</ref> Dalyrmple described the land from the range down to the Daintree River as "luxuriant jungles, filling all the broad valley, and giving evidence of many thousands of acres of the same rich agricultural lands ... soon to be the gem of Australia", prophesying that agriculture rather than mining would be the longterm feature of the [[Queensland economy]].<ref>{{Citation|author1=Dalrymple|first=George Elphinstone|title=Narrative and reports of the Queensland North-East coast expedition, 1873|year=1874|url=https://archive.org/details/NarrativeAndReportsOfTheQueenslandNorthEastCoastExpedition1873/page/n17/mode/2up|pages=30, para 251-253|publication-date=1874|publisher=[[Queensland Parliament]]|access-date=27 October 2021}}</ref>

Another of the expedition members,  [[Robert Arthur Johnstone|Robert Johnstone]] (a sub-inspector in the [[Queensland Police Force]]) climbed to the top of the Heights of Dagmar, describing the range as "fine open grassy hills of good soil; the extent of rich jungle land is very extensive". Another expedition member [[Walter Hill (garden curator)|Walter Hill]] (a botanist) described the soil "first class" and identified a new species of coconut palm.<ref>{{Citation|author1=Johnstone|first=Robert|title=Narrative and reports of the Queensland North-East coast expedition, 1873|year=1874|url=https://archive.org/details/NarrativeAndReportsOfTheQueenslandNorthEastCoastExpedition1873/page/n17/mode/2up|pages=46|publication-date=1874|publisher=[[Queensland Parliament]]|access-date=27 October 2021}}</ref> Hill also expressed the view that the land around the upper Daintree River would be able to support a large population, noting it would be suitable for the cultivation of [[sugarcane]] and other tropical crops as well as for grazing land. He also believed the Daintree River would be an effective transport route to the [[Palmer goldfields]] to the west.<ref>{{Citation|author1=Hill|first=Walter|title=Narrative and reports of the Queensland North-East coast expedition, 1873|year=1874|url=https://archive.org/details/NarrativeAndReportsOfTheQueenslandNorthEastCoastExpedition1873/page/n17/mode/2up|pages=51|publication-date=1874|publisher=[[Queensland Parliament]]|access-date=27 October 2021}}</ref>

In April 1886 [[Queensland Government]] offered land for sale in Dagmar, 4 parcels of {{Convert|160|acre}} each,<ref>{{cite news|date=3 April 1886|title=Official Notifications.|volume=XLI|page=6|newspaper=[[The Brisbane Courier]]|issue=8,804|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4487511|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=27 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=5 April 1886|title=Official Notifications.|page=2|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Brisbane)|The Telegraph]]|issue=4,232|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article174706029|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=27 October 2021}}</ref> followed by further land sales and pastoral leases. By 1894, a number of blocks of land had been sold along the Daintree River in the south-east of the present boundaries of the locality.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1894|title=Cook District 2 Mile map NG1 series sheet 1|url=https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-2mile-cook-ng1-sh1-c.jpg|access-date=27 October 2021|publisher=[[Queensland Government]]|type=Map}}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 1942 the Queensland Government set aside land in Dagmar to create a reserve as a source of timber (later known as the Dagmar State Forest).<ref>{{cite news|date=2 April 1942|title=Land Resumed.|page=4|newspaper=[[Cairns Post]]|issue=12,514|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42338617|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=27 October 2021}}</ref> The timber reserve appears on a 1950 map.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1950|title=Queensland Two Mile series sheet 2m449|url=https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-2mile-qld-2m449-roads-1950.jpg|access-date=27 October 2021|publisher=[[Queensland Government]]|type=Map|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027052532/https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-2mile-qld-2m449-roads-1950.jpg |archive-date=27 October 2021 }}</ref>

=== Noah ===
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| stategov            = [[Electoral district of Cook|Cook]]
| fedgov              = [[Division of Leichhardt|Leichhardt]]
| near-n              = [[Cape Tribulation, Queensland|Cape Tribulation]]
| near-ne             = [[Thornton Beach, Queensland|Thornton Beach]]
| near-e              = [[Diwan, Queensland|Diwan]]
| near-se             = [[Cow Bay, Queensland|Cow Bay]]
| near-s              = [[Forest Creek, Queensland|Forest Creek]]
| near-sw             = [[Upper Daintree, Queensland|Upper Daintree]]
| near-w              = [[Dagmar, Queensland|Dagmar]]
| near-nw             = [[Bloomfield, Queensland|Bloomfield]]
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The northern and eastern parts of the locality of Noah are within the Daintree National Park.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2012-05-09|title=Wet Tropics parks|url=https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/management/managed-areas/world-heritage-areas/current/wet-tropics/parks|access-date=2021-10-26|website=Parks and forests|publisher=[[Queensland Government]]|language=en-AU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026233328/https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/management/managed-areas/world-heritage-areas/current/wet-tropics/parks |archive-date=26 October 2021 }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2010-01-28|title=Daintree National Park (CYPAsdfL)|url=https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/daintree|access-date=2021-10-26|website=Parks and forests|publisher=[[Queensland Government]]|language=en-AU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228214846/https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/daintree/ |archive-date=28 February 2019 }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Wet Tropics of Queensland|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/486/|access-date=2021-10-26|website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050628081252/http://whc.unesco.org:80/en/list/486 |archive-date=28 June 2005 }}</ref>

The south-western part is undeveloped land.<ref name="globe" />