Daintree
Shire (1879-1919), occupying the coast and hinterland around Cooktown. Cooktown was a separate municipal borough.In 1919 Daintree Shire and Hann Shire were amalgamated to form Cook Shire.
Dalrymple
Electorate created by the 2008 redistribution by merging Charters Towers and Tablelands.
Township established as a a trading depot on the upper Burdekin as a solution to the wet season isolation of Bowen from its hinterland.
Shire west of Townsville covering most of the watershed of the Burdekin River amalgamated with Charters Towers City to form Charters Towers Regional Council in 2008. A police camp was established on the Burdekin, north of the future site of Charters Towers in 1864 and in 1868 was named Dalrymple. The district's pastoral economy diversified with the discovery of gold at Upper Cape River (1866), Ravenswood (1869) and Charters Towers (1872). When the local government division was formed in 1879 it was named after the district's first town, though Charters Towers functioned as the Shire's administrative centre. Ravenswood formed a separate local government division until 1929 when it was amalgamated with Dalrymple Shire.
Daydream Island
Tourist resort, originally named West Molle in 1815 by Lieutenant Charles Jeffreys of the brig Kangaroo after Colonel George Molle, the Lieutenant Governor. The island was presumably renamed to avoid confusion with the resort on South Molle Island.
Deeragun
Suburban locality west of Townsville and west of the Bohle River.
Deeral
Rural district south of Cairns east of the Bellenden Ker Range, in the Russell River valley, first named Munros Creek, probably after W. Munro, the chairman of Cairns Division/Shire, which funded and built the Cairns-Mulgrave tramway. Munros Creek was one of its stations, renamed Deeral, thought to derive from an Aboriginal word meaning teeth, in 1907.