Dalbeg

History

The area was originally known as Akala until the Queensland Surveyor General changed the name to Dalbeg, the name of a pastoral run taken up by pastoralist James Hall Scott on 28 May 1863. Dalbeg Post Office opened on 1 December 1956 and closed in 1971. Dalbeg State School opened on 4 July 1955; it closed nn 1999. It was at 45-63 Delpratt Street (). Dalbeg was once home to the North Queensland Soaring Centre (then the Burdekin Soaring Club).

Geography

Dalbeg farming community located inland from the townships of Ayr and Home Hill. Situated on the banks of the Burdekin River, it is a fertile area famous for growing sugar cane and vegetables. On many maps there appears to be a road crossing the Burdekin River at Dalbeg. In fact this was once a fording point. The earliest explorers coming from the Gulf region (The Plains of Promise) used Expedition Pass through the mountains to arrive at the banks of the Burdekin River at this fording point where they then crossed into Strathalbyn Station. The river can no longer be forded at this point.

Most-observed species

• Magpie-lark

  Grallina cyanoleuca (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  18
• Black-faced Cuckooshrike

  Coracina novaehollandiae (Gmelin, 1789) · Aves
  16
• Torresian Crow

  Corvus orru Bonaparte, 1850 · Aves
  15
• Pale-headed Rosella

  Platycercus adscitus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  14
• Rufous Whistler

  Pachycephala rufiventris (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  14
• Blue-faced Honeyeater

  Entomyzon cyanotis (Latham, 1801) · Aves
  13
• Striated Pardalote

  Pardalotus striatus (Gmelin, 1789) · Aves
  11
• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  11

Most recent

• M 4.3 — 2011-09-17
  44 km NNW of Collinsville, Australia
• M 4 — 2011-04-16
  45 km NNW of Collinsville, Australia
• M 5 — 2011-04-16
  Queensland, Australia