Dalgety, New South Wales

Dalgety
New South Wales
Main street of Dalgety and the Buckley's Crossing Hotel
Dalgety is located in New South Wales
Dalgety
Dalgety
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Coordinates36°30′0″S 148°50′0″E / 36.50000°S 148.83333°E / -36.50000; 148.83333
Population252 (SAL 2021)[1]
Established1832
Postcode(s)2628
Location
  • 51 km (32 mi) from Cooma
  • 452 km (281 mi) from Sydney
LGA(s)Snowy Monaro Regional Council
State electorate(s)Monaro
Federal division(s)Eden-Monaro

Dalgety is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, on the banks of the Snowy River between Melbourne and Sydney.

The town is located at what was once an important river crossing along the Travelling Stock route from Gippsland to the Snowy Mountains High Country dating from the 1840s.

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Dalgety (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata