Urandangi
Located in Boulia Shire 155 kilometres southwest of Mount Isa, 219 kilometres northwest of Boulia and around 1130 kilometres west of Mackay in Bularnu country, the township of Urandangi (formerly Urandangie) lies towards the top of the Channel Country — the Georgina and the area's other watercourses are part of the Lake Eyre drainage basin.
The township was established in August 1883 and officially named Urandangi — which reputedly translates as much gidyea — on 12 December 1884 on the banks of the Georgina River where a stock route crossed the stream. In its heyday, as an important location on the stock route to the rail head at Dajarra, the area had a population of around four hundred, a hotel, two stores, a post office, a police station and a dance hall. A school has opened and closed intermittently according to the presence of school-age children in the area. Following massive flooding in March 2023 — seven metres of floodwater inundated the town — the school was officially open, but had no students and a question mark hung over the township's future.
