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However, in the 20 years leading up to Cyclone Tracy, the city had undergone a period of rapid expansion. E.P. Milliken estimated that on the eve of the cyclone there were 43,500 people living in 12,000 dwellings in the Darwin area.
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Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated Darwin, from 24 to 25 December 1974. It killed 65 people and destroyed over 90 percent of Darwin's buildings, leaving over 20,000 people homeless. It killed 65 people and destroyed over 90 percent of Darwin's buildings, leaving over 20,000 people homeless.
Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated Darwin, Australia, from December 24 to December 25, 1974. It was recorded by The Age as being a "disaster of the first magnitude...without parallel in Australia's history." It killed 71 people - the official death toll was revised upwards from 65 to 71 in March 2005 - and destroyed over 70 ...
1974 - Cyclone Tracy made landfall and passed directly over the city of Darwin, Australia. Tracy killed 71 people and caused catastrophic damage in and around the city. 2016 - Typhoon Nock-ten (pictured) makes landfall as a super typhoon over Bicol, Philippines, killing only 13 people. It was the strongest Christmas Day tropical cyclone worldwide.
A cyclone barrelling towards southeast Africa for the last four days caused widespread devastation in Mayotte after it struck the French oversea region as the most powerful storm in 90 years.
Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin. 66 known dead. 1975 January 25,000 people evacuated from Darwin in six days after Cyclone Tracy. 14 February Liner Patris arrives in Darwin to act as a floating hostel post Cyclone Tracy. [11] 28 February Darwin Reconstruction Commission established by the Darwin Reconstruction Act. [11] May
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