Adaptation lessons from Cyclone Tracy / authors: Matthew Mason, Katharine Haynes
- Bib ID:
- 8046493
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mason, Matthew S, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit.
- Online Version:
- National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available online.
- Description:
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- Gold Coast, Queensland : National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, 2010
- 1 online resource (82 pages) : colour illustrations, maps, charts.
- ISBN:
- 9781921609138
- Series:
- National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (Australia). Historical case studies of extreme events
- Technical Details:
- Available online (as at 04/09/15) at: https://www.nccarf.edu.au/publications/adaptation-lessons-cyclone-tracy.
- Summary:
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This report highlights Cyclone Tracy, which was a Category 4 cyclone that laid waste to the city of Darwin in the Northern Territory early on Christmas Day in 1974. Cyclone Tracy showed the nation just how devastating the impact of a cyclone could be, and awoke the engineering community - local and international - to the true risk of cyclonic wind storms. Tracy's small size minimised the spatial extent of damage, but her slow forward speed meant the areas beneath her storm track were completely devastated. Cyclone Tracy resulted in 71 deaths and 650 injuries. Fortunately for Darwin, flooding and storm surge were not major issues, or these numbers could have been far higher. In almost all cases, wind was the dominant factor in the ensuing structural damage, which left 94 per cent of housing uninhabitable and approximately 40 000 people homeless, and necessitated the evacuation of 80 per cent of the city's residents.
- Notes:
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- Title from PDF cover page (viewed on September 4, 2015)
- NCCARF Synthesis and Integrative Research Program.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Mason, M & Haynes, K 2010, Adaptation lessons from Cyclone Tracy, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, 82 pp.
- Also available online (as at 04/09/15) at: https://www.nccarf.edu.au/publications/adaptation-lessons-cyclone-tracy.
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- Music Publisher Number:
- NCCARF Publication 11/10
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