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Quialigo

locality in New South Wales, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ31398182
Source-derived summary

Quialigo () is a locality in Goulburn Mulwaree Council in New South Wales, Australia. It lies about 25 km south of Goulburn on the road to Windellama and 110 km northeast of Canberra. At the 2016 census, it had a population of 253.

Quialigo had a state school from 1871 to 1877, 1902 to 1910 and 1917 to 1924. This was described at different times as a "half-time school" or a "provisional school".

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The public source identifies “Quialigo” as locality in New South Wales, Australia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Quialigo, locality and South.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 1871, 1877, 1902—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Quialigo, locality and South providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q31398182. Authority coordinates are -34.945, 149.764. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016, 1871, 1877 and 1902.

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This entry incorporates text from Quialigo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.