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Tully is a rural town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] It is adjacent to the Bruce Highway, approximately 140 kilometres (87 mi) south of Cairns by road and 210 kilometres (130 mi) north of Townsville.
Babinda is a rural town and locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] Babinda and Tully annually compete for the Golden Gumboot, an award for Australia's wettest town. Babinda is usually the winner, recording an annual average rainfall of over 4,279.4 millimetres (168.48 in) each year. [4]
On 9 November 2012, the Australian Government also acknowledged the Indigenous heritage of the area as being nationally significant. The Aboriginal Rainforest People of the Wet Tropics of Queensland have lived continuously in the rainforest environment for at least 5000 years, and this is the only place in Australia where Aboriginal people have permanently inhabited a tropical rainforest ...
Although no rain gauge exists on the mountain, data at nearby Mount Bellenden Ker suggest an annual average rainfall of around 8,000 millimetres (310 in), [6] and an estimated potential maximum as high as 17,000 mm (670 in), both of which would make the mountain one of the wettest places in the world. Even in what constitutes the "dry" in most ...
Queensland (locally / ... The coastal far north of the state is the wettest region in Australia, with Mount Bellenden Ker, south of Cairns, ...
Residents in Hughenden, Queensland, were on high alert on February 7 as the Flinders River broke its banks and the town was inundated by water and resulting debris.The river reached 4.4 metres at ...
Another place, Troudaninna Bore (, altitude : 46 m) in South Australia, from 1893 to 1936, received, in average, 104.9 mm (4.13 inches) of precipitation From one extreme to another, parts of the far North Queensland coast annually average over 4,000 mm (157 in), with the Australian annual record being 12,461 mm (491 in), set at the summit of ...
Springbrook is the only place in subtropical Australia to exceed 3,000 millimetres (120 in) average rainfall making it probably the wettest place between Townsville and Tasmania. [ citation needed ] Exceptionally rainy periods have been recorded in some wet years including; 900 millimetres (35 in) of rainfall recorded in a 24-hour period before ...