Editing Daintree National Park (section)

=== 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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| 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>