Exactly 50 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin and left a trail of devastation. It remains one of the most destructive natural events in Australia's history. Wind speeds ...
Natural Hazards Research Australia (NHRA) has released new insights focused on building community resilience against natural disasters, drawing on the 50th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy and the ...
Tracy was by no means the most powerful cyclone recorded in Australia, but its path directly ... Jared Archibald is the curator of Territory history at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern ...
which meant the cyclones that hit Australia in the years following caused less damage to homes and “nothing like the terrible loss of life” seen with Cyclone Tracy. “While the modern city of ...
Darwin after Tracy would never be the same again. While he wasn’t on the ground when the cyclone rolled in, Territory History curator at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory ...
Ms Venslovas said four days before Cyclone ... that followed Tracy after experiencing so much heartache and trauma.” Ms Venslovas said had the family not been in South Australia, it was unlikely ...