Damage caused by Cyclone Althea, Pallarenda, 1971

Damage caused by Cyclone Althea to beach facilities at Pallarenda, 1971. Slide by John Donohue, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © John Donohue and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Scenes after the Townsville cyclone, 1940

Scenes after the Townsville cyclone, 1940. Damage occurred to the sea baths, the CWA bathing enclosure, sea wall, city baths, Estate Picture Theatre in Railway Estate, a figtree in North Ward, the rotunda in Stand Park and a cottage at the mouth of the Ross River. Photographs from North Queensland Register, 24 February 1940. Collection of John Young

Collection of John Young

Average annual number of tropical cyclones

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Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government

Tropical cyclones

Average annual number of tropical cyclones using 36 years of data (1969-2006 tropical cyclone seasons), Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government 2006

Tropical cyclones, 1906-2006

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Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government

Tropical cyclones

The path of tropical cyclones in eastern Australia from 1906 to 2006. Each coloured line represents a cyclone. Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government

Cyclone by Vance Palmer, 1947

That wind, Fay Donolly was thinking as she woke, it was like a spiteful bird, swooping down and lifting away. She saw it as a brown sea-eagle, poised somewhere in the void above the house, watching with baleful eyes for a chance to strike in earnest. Now it was still as death, now it made a show of dropping for the kill. And the screech of its wings, as it swept down, stopped the heart for a moment, so that it started again with a flutter.

Opening paragraph of Vance Palmer, Cyclone, A & R, Sydney, 1947

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Mitchell River Mission (now Kowanyama), re-housing plan, c1965

Kowanyama, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
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Location

Kowanyama, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
27 October 2010

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Missions and reserves

Mitchell River Mission, re-housing layout plan for redevelopment. The Mitchell River Mission was badly damaged by a cyclone in 1964 and subsequently rebuilt. In 1905 an Anglican Aboriginal mission was established on Topsy Creek, south of Kowanyama, but 14 years later it was moved to Mitchell River. In 1987 a deed of grant in trust (DOGIT), comprising 250 square kilometres of land was made in favour of the local people. This plan c1965, details provision for 'native housing', and a range of administrative and service functions. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

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