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View south from near the scene of the 1971 disaster (this photograph was taken in winter 1992) The Cairngorm Plateau disaster, also known as the Feith Buidhe disaster, occurred in November 1971 when six fifteen-year-old Edinburgh school students and their two leaders were on a two-day navigational expedition in a remote area of the Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands.
Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue (eBook). Dingwall: Sandstone Press. ISBN 978-1-908737-48-9. John Allen joined the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team after the time of the disaster and went on to become its leader. Baker, Patrick (2014). "The Lost Shelter". The Cairngorms: A Secret History. Birlinn. ISBN 9780857908094. Watson, Adam (1992).
Cairn Gorm (Scottish Gaelic: An Càrn Gorm) [4] is a mountain in the Scottish Highlands.It is part of the Cairngorms range and wider Grampian Mountains.With a summit elevation of 1,244.8 m (4,084 ft) above sea level, Cairn Gorm is classed as a Munro and is the sixth-highest mountain in the British Isles.
Far North Queensland is the location of the first amber fossils to be found in Australia. The four-million-year-old fossils were found on a beach in Cape York Peninsula but were probably washed ashore after drifting with the currents for about 200 km. [ 14 ] In the 1860s, Richard Daintree discovered gold and copper deposits along several rivers ...
Mount Emerald Wind Farm is a 180 MW wind farm situated on Mount Emerald, in Arriga, Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. [1] It is approximately 8 km WNW of Tolga , and 49 km SW of Cairns . The project is a joint venture between Port Bajool (land owner) and RATCH-Australia (wind farm developer and operator).
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Yorkeys Knob got its name from George Lawson, [11] a Yorkshire-born, Cairns-based beche-de-mer fisherman, [2] [12] from his nickname Yorkey, and "knob" meaning a rounded hill. On 10 June 1886, Yorkey Lawson reported the loss of a man and his wife from Green Island. They had left to visit the wreck of the Upolu, intending to return the same day ...
Disaster Location Deaths Date Notes Shipwreck: Christmas Island: 48: 2010 Dec 15: 2010 Christmas Island boat disaster: Cyclone/Flood: Cairns and Cardwell, Queensland: 47: 1927 Feb 9: This tropical cyclone crossed the coast north of Cairns, which weakened into a rain depression, causing extensive flooding, resulting in a total 47 deaths throughout parts of Northern Queensland [102]