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Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia 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...

Australian weather and the seasons - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australia's pearling industry - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Modern Australian residential architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australian architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

Internationally recognised Australian icons include buildings like the Sydney Opera House (architect Jørn 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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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Cyclones   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Cyclone   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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Geoscience Australia: AusGeo News 83 - Preliminary assessment of Tropical Cyclone Larry   (website Geosciences Australia )

Structures built after Tropical Cyclone Winifred withstood Tropical Cyclone Larry better. Figure 3. Damage Index (DI) relating to residential building damage (proportion of population value based on repair cost; see table 1.) by region/township impacted ...

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...

tropical cyclone information - Cairns Australia   (website Great Barrier Reef Australia )

Tropical cyclones produce extreme winds which may exceed 200 km/h. Cyclone Severity Categories An estimate of cyclone severity is now included in all tropical cyclone advices. Craft may drag moorings.á Category 2 Strongest gust 125 - 170 km/h Typical ef...

Browsing Cyclone Tracy by Title   (website Northern Territory Library - Territory Images )

Description: Cleaning up after Cyclone Tracy the road train is waiting to be loaded with debris, Bouganvillia Street, Nightcliff, NT, January 1975. Description: Bagot Road Millner after Cyclone Tracy. Description: Beatrice Caravan Park, Bagot Road, (corn...

Browsing Cyclone Tracy by Date   (website Northern Territory Library - Territory Images )

Description: Damaged aeroplanes litter Darwin Airport following Cyclone Tracy. Description: House damaged by Cyclone Tracy, Ross Smith Avenue, Darwin. Description: A damaged and debris covered Smith Street following Cyclone Tracy....

Geoscience Australia - What causes cyclones   (website Geosciences Australia )

><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. ...

Geoscience Australia - Where do cyclones occur?   (website Geosciences Australia )

><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...

Geoscience Australia - Cyclone reports   (website Geosciences Australia )

><br/>Natural Hazards in Australia Report (NEW!) The Community Risk in Gladstone report considers tropical cyclones along with severe wind and storm tide as well as earthquakes. The Geoscience Australia Library is the premier geoscience library in Austra...

Geoscience Australia - Cyclone tools, maps and databases   (website Geosciences Australia )

This page contains information on current tropical cyclones as well as warnings services provided by the Bureau of Meteorology on tropical cyclones. The severe weather pages provide comprehensive information and links on cyclones which have affected Aust...

Geoscience Australia - What is a cyclone?   (website Geosciences Australia )

><br/>Natural Hazards in Australia Report (NEW!) If the sustained wind reaches hurricane force of at least 118 km/h the system is defined as a severe tropical cyclone. Potentially the most dangerous hazard associated with tropical cyclones which make lan...

Geoscience Australia - Major historic cyclones   (website Geosciences Australia )

><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....

Cyclone Tag: Archive (ABC Science)   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

Thursday, 8 May 2008News analysis Burmese authorities could have had as much as 72 hours notice of the devastating Cyclone Nargis, say Australian researchers. Thursday, 3 April 2008Your Photos Australia had a hefty serve of storms this summer! The cloud ...