Tropical cyclones

It is claimed that tropical cyclones are the most feared weather phenomena to affect Australia.

Queensland’s historical landscape encapsulates the tension between threat and survival.

Headquarters and signals room of Emergency Civil Defence Services, Green Street, West End (Townsville), set up in 1972 after Cyclone Althea struck in December 1971. Slides by Lynne Clancy, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Lynne Clancy and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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. 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

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