Australia's Natural Disasters : Tales of Nature's Dramatic Impact on This Country and Its People by Richard Whitaker (2022, Trade Paperback) for sale online

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PublisherNew Holland Pty, The Limited

ISBN-101760792624

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Book TitleAustralia's Natural Disasters : Tales of Nature's Dramatic Impact on this Country and Its People

Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicNatural Disasters, Earthquakes & Volcanoes

GenreNature

AuthorRichard Whitaker

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight34.6 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width8.5 in

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Table Of ContentIntroduction . 81857 The Wreck of the Dunbar . 131865 Goyder's Line Ignored . 191893 & 1974 Brisbane Floods . 251902 The Federation Drought . 341903 A Fatal Race up Mount Wellington 401914 & 1991 Storms Hit Sydney . 451918 Cyclone Terror in Mackay . 511918 & 1976 Twisters across Victoria . 571929 Tasmania in Flood . 621931 The Southern Cloud Disappears 661937 O'Reilly and the Stinson 721938 Mass Rescue at Bondi Beach 771938 The Crash of the 'Kyeema' 831939 Black Friday in Victoria . 881947 & 1999 Sydney's Eastern Suburbs Devastated by Hail 931948 The Adelaide Tempest 1051954 East Coast Cyclone 1101955 Maitland Goes Under . 1181961 The Flight of Tango Victor Charlie 1261967 The Apple Isle Burns . 1341967 Prime Minister Lost . 1421968 & 1989 Earthquake: Meckering and Newcastle . 1471972 & 2003 Flash Floods in Melbourne 1561974 Cyclone Tracy Flattens Darwin . 1621983 Dust Storms and Bushfires Sweep Victoria . 1691985 Huge Hail Hits Brisbane 1821990 The Big Wet in the East 1871992 Twisters, Wind and Hail across Queensland . 1951997 The Thredbo Landslide . 2011998 Disaster Strikes the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race 2061999 A Deadly Sleep - The Snowboarder Tragedy . 2142002 ... The Millennium Drought 2202003 Canberra Burns . 2292007 The Pasha Bulker Storm . 2352009 The Black Saturday Fires 2382009 The Eastern Australian Dust Storms . 2412010 & 2011 Queensland floods . 2452011 Tropical Cyclone Yasi 2482019-2020 Blazing Summer - The East Coast Bushfires 2512020 After the Fire Came the Flood 255Glossary 259Bibliography 261Index . 262

SynopsisAustralia's Natural Disasters tells many stories of the devastation that nature has wreaked on our wild country and its people. From the agonies of droughts and floods to the shocks of earthquakes and bush fires, Australia is a country famed as much for its ferocious natural hazards as for its rich environment. Freak weather has caused plane crashes and shipwrecks. On Christmas Eve 1974 Darwin pubs were bursting with festive people joking that 'cyclones never hit Darwin.' Cyclone Tracy was expected to be another 'near miss.' But in the early hours of Christmas Day the slow-moving tropical cyclone tore the city apart, with sustained winds of 200 kilometres per hour, and Darwin became another victim of nature. Cyclone Tracy is only one of the many extreme weather events that Australia has been subjected to., Australia's Natural Disasters tells many stories of the devastation that nature has wreaked on our wild country and its people. From the agonies of droughts and oods to the shocks of earthquakes and bush fires, Australia is a country famed as much for its ferocious natural hazards as for its rich environment. Freak weather has caused plane crashes and shipwrecks. On Christmas Eve 1974 Darwin pubs were bursting with festive people joking that 'cyclones never hit Darwin'. Cyclone Tracy was expected to be another 'near miss'. But in the early hours of Christmas Day the slow-moving tropical cyclone tore the city apart, with sustained winds of 200 kilometres per hour, and Darwin became another victim of nature. Cyclone Tracy is only one of the many extreme weather events that Australia has been subjected to. Australia's Natural Disasters tells many stories of the devastation nature has wreaked on our wild country. From the agonies of droughts and floods to the shock occurrence of earthquakes and bushfires, Australia is a country famed as much for its ferocious natural hazards as it is for its rich environment. Freak weather has caused plane crashes and many shipwrecks.