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Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture PortalAustralia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Fire can often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ra...
Even though the four 'official' calendar seasons have the same names as the northern hemisphere seasons, the weather during these seasons is very different to northern hemisphere weather patterns. Indigenous Australians have long had their own seasonal c...
Bardi people, Cape Leveque, Kimberley region, Western Australia Pearl shell, red pigment. Australia's pearling industry began long before European settlement. Northern Australian coastal dwelling Aborigines harvested the abundant pearl shell from the shal...
Robin Boyd, Roy Grounds and Harry Seidler have contributed significantly to modern Australian architecture by applying modernist-style principles to Australian homes. Another group of architects, such as Glenn Murcutt, Tina Engelen and Ian Moore, and Trop...
Internationally recognised Australian icons include buildings like the Sydney Opera House (architect Jřrn Utzon) and the new Parliament House in Canberra (architect Romaldo Giurgola). Distinctive Australian architecture is also recognisable in the rural ...
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Northern Territory Library Cyclone Tracy Website (more info)
Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Australia on the night of Christmas Eve 1974. The website has three main areas: Cyclone Tracy - covers the history of Darwin, Meteorological information - includes general information about cyclones and Oral histories - a
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Cyclones in the Northern Terrtory (website Northern Territory Library Cyclone Tracy Website )In the Northern Territory cyclones occur most frequently in the Gulf of Carpentaria near Gove, and in a line moving west from the Darwin area. Severe damage was caused on the Tiwi Islands with 250 mm of rain in eight hours recorded at Bathurst Island. A s...
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Saunders and Lea's research is the first to calculate the precise contribution of sea temperatures in driving cyclone frequency. A recent report, Climate Change in Australia 2007 includes climate change projections for Australian tropical cyclone activity...
><br/> National Emergency Risk Assessment Guidelines Project (NEW!) ><br/>Natural Hazards in Australia Report (NEW!) In an average season, tropical cyclones are mostly experienced in north west Australia between Exmouth and Broome in Western Australia and...
><br/>Natural Hazards in Australia Report (NEW!) Severe tropical cyclone Larry crossed the far north Queensland coast near Etty Bay around 7am on 20 March 2006. Mossman, Cairns and Innisfail reported severe damage and Cooktown reported plantation damage....
><br/> National Emergency Risk Assessment Guidelines Project (NEW!) ><br/>Natural Hazards in Australia Report (NEW!) Sometimes a decaying tropical cyclone may interact with a weather system in higher latitudes to cause impacts far from the tropics. ...
Narration: Cairns geologist Jon Nott says immense cyclones like Katrina have been pounding our coast for centuries. Professor Jon Nott: Itís actually more intense than Hurricane Katrina. Maryke Steffens, Reporter: Iím in the wind tunnel at the Cyclone Te...
Saunders and Lea's research is the first to calculate the precise contribution of sea temperatures in driving cyclone frequency. A recent report, Climate Change in Australia 2007 includes climate change projections for Australian tropical cyclone activity...
Cairns, on Australia's north-east coast, is built to withstand a cyclone as strong as Tracy -- a high category 4 cyclone that devastated Darwin, on the northern coast, on Christmas Day, 1974. Use these social-bookmarking links to share Super-cyclones cou...
Saunders and Lea's research is the first to calculate the precise contribution of sea temperatures in driving cyclone frequency. A recent report, Climate Change in Australia 2007 includes climate change projections for Australian tropical cyclone activity...
Saunders and Lea's research is the first to calculate the precise contribution of sea temperatures in driving cyclone frequency. A recent report, Climate Change in Australia 2007 includes climate change projections for Australian tropical cyclone activity...
Narration: Cairns geologist Jon Nott says immense cyclones like Katrina have been pounding our coast for centuries. Professor Jon Nott: Itís actually more intense than Hurricane Katrina. Maryke Steffens, Reporter: Iím in the wind tunnel at the Cyclone Te...
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