On Christmas Day 1974, a cyclone damaged 90% of the buildings in this country's city of Darwin
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1974 Cyclone Tracy - Enjoy Darwin  In 1974 Cyclone Tracy destroyed the City of Darwin in north Australia in a ... In 1978 when I arrived in Darwin the cyclone damage was still very visible. ... Hopefully the stringent building codes now in place will prevent this happening again in Darwin. ... As a lot of people on this site, Christmas Eve and Morning 1974 was a...
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Cyclone Tracy, Darwin - Fact sheet 176 - National Archives of Australia  Fact sheet about Cyclone Tracy, Darwin. ... Events of December 1974. The northern Australian city of Darwin was devastated early on Christmas ... Houses and other buildings disintegrated under the onslaught, accompanied ... Seventy per cent of Darwin's homes were destroyed or suffered severe damage, and all public...
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Cyclone Tracy: 30-Year Retrospective - RMS  Cyclone Tracy struck the city of Darwin on the northern coast of Australia ... Satellite and damage observations suggest that Tracy's winds topped 250 km/hr (155 ... midnight and 7:00 am the next day with a slow forward speed of around 6 ... Figure 1: Path of Cyclone Tracy, December 1974 ... The building stock was almost.
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Tropical Cyclone Tracy: December 25, 1974 - ABC Emergency ...  Dec 23, 2014 ... The following day the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Darwin issued a ... Made landfall just north of Fannie Bay at 3:30am on Christmas Day 1974 and passed directly over Darwin. ... At least 90 per cent of homes in Darwin were demolished or badly damaged. ... The city was devastated by the cyclone.
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Cyclone Tracy - Wikipedia  Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974, devastated the city of Darwin, ... Tracy killed 71 people, caused A$837 million in damage (1974 dollars), or approximately A$4.45 billion (2014 dollars). It destroyed more than 70 percent of Darwin's buildings, including 80 percent of...
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A rolling e-map roadmap on the Darwin to Alice Springs on the ...  Darwin: Capital city of Northern Territory, Australia is Darwin. ... In August 2000 when our population reached 23,000, now around 25,000. ... These areas provide valuable wildlife habitats, especially for Magpie Geese, ..... With a population of over 9,804 people Katherine is a modern thriving regional center that offers a...
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Darwin, Northern Territory - Wikipedia  Darwin /drwn/ is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor ..... The heat index sometimes rises above 45 C (113 F), while the actual ... The sun passes directly overhead in mid October and mid February. ...... Population, capital city and balance of state, states and territories, 30 June 1901...
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1988 - Nostalgia Central  25 - Iraq takes Basra from Iran, a reversal of fortunes in the Gulf War. ... 08 - Iran-Iraq war ends in ceasefire. ... 10 - The worst hurricane of the century, Hurricane Gilbert, hits the South of Mexico and the Caribbean. 17 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is stripped of his Olympic 100m Gold Medal and world record for taking...
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WW2 - The Blitz Hits London | HISTORY  Just like the Great Fire nearly 300 years before, the Blitz during World War II ... By September 1940, London had already experienced German bombing. ... such as Cornhill and Lombard Street, suffered little damage and the Bank of ... More than 1,000 people were killed on each night in various areas across the capital.
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This Day in History - Today in History with a distinctly Australian ...  A massive earthquake and tsunami hits Lisbon, Portugal, killing between 60,000 ... In 1755, Lisbon, capital city of Portugal, was a sophisticated and wealthy city. ... At around 9:30am the next day, 1 November 1755, an earthquake estimated to have ... Being a Sunday and All Saints' Day, tens of thousands of people were...
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List of tallest buildings in Melbourne - Wikipedia  Melbourne, the second largest city in Australia, is home to approximately 627 completed ... 20th century ... Eureka Tower was also the tallest residential building in the world, until surpassed by Ocean ... Most of Melbourne's skyscrapers constructed by the 1990s were built for .... (410 Elizabeth Street), My80 10 May 2014.png...
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Darwin, the City | Answers in Genesis  Jun 1, 1982 ... It was named Port Darwin by Stokes after his naturalist friend Charles, with whom he had sailed on the Beagle between ... After the war the first major commercial pitchblende (uranium ore) discovery in Australia was made ... During the 1980/81 statistical year the 128,000 people in the Northern Territory,...
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Top 10 Worst Natural Disasters of The 20th Century  Nov 19, 2015 ... These are the worst natural disasters of the 20th century. ... On 29 September 1991 Bangladesh was struck with one of the worst tropical cyclone that is ever recorded. ... the richter scale followed by a series of aftershocks for three years. ... in 1994, which left North Korea dependant on UN member countries...
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The Great Midwest Wildfires of 1871 - National Weather Service  From Sunday, October 8 through Tuesday, October 10, 1871 wildfires claimed ... The most famous fire struck Chicago, and claimed about 300 lives while destroying over three square miles of the city, including more than 17,000 buildings. ... produced conditions conducive to large, rapidly-spreading fires should one ignite.
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A Way of Reconciliation - Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Berlin ...  Nov 24, 2013 ... the morning after the bombing  he reached for reconciliation rather ... Cathedral rises out of the ruins of the old as a sign and fortaste of ... bomb the English city of Coventry. ... 25th May 1962 a new, very modern cathedral next to the ruins ... The Martin-Luther-Memorial-Church in Berlin-Mariendorf was built.
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Darwin, Northern Territory - Wikipedia  Darwin /drwn/ is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor ... The settlement there became the town of Palmerston in 1869, and was renamed Darwin in 1911. The city has been ... Goyder named the settlement Palmerston, after the British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston. In 1870, the first...
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Text summary US billion dollar weather disasters from 1980 - 2011  Jan 15, 2012 ... Billion Dollar U.S. Weather/Climate Disasters, 1980-2011 ... damage in Texas alone due to loss of property, timber and ... Mississippi River flooding Spring-Summer, 2011. ... tornadoes over central states (OK, TX, KS, NE, MO, IA, IL) with an .... other areas affected across portions of the south and far west...
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Hurricane Andrew - Wikipedia  Hurricane Andrew was, at the time of its occurrence in August 1992, the most destructive ... An F3 tornado in St. John the Baptist Parish wrecked 163 structures. .... winds of 35 mph (56 km/h) extending out only about 90 miles (140 km) from its center. ... About 25 minutes after its first Florida landfall, Andrew hit just northeast of...
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Darwin, Northern Territory - Wikipedia  Darwin /drwn/ is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor ... On 9 September 1839, HMS Beagle sailed into Darwin harbour during its surveying of the area. John Clements Wickham named ..... Also located on the Esplanade is the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. Darwin has a...
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Survivor: Jeff Probst reveals where the evacuated contestants went ...  Sep 22, 2016 ... Each week, Jeff Probst will answer a few questions about the latest ... Survivor: Jeff Probst reveals where the evacuated contestants went during that cyclone ... a storm that was gathering steam and heading toward our island. ... you saw where the Gen X tribe camp was literally destroyed by one huge tree.
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Sydney: The peach of beaches - Telegraph  Sep 26, 2001 ... To the locals, Bondi is a way of life rather than just a sandy shore with monster waves. ... to 1961 the lucky dwellers in the lucky country could just hop on that ... Sunday" (February 6, 1938) when freak waves dragged beachgoers into boiling seas. Though five people drowned, more than 300 were rescued.