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Australian Geographic, Timeline Australia’s worst cyclones, website viewed 29 April 2011.Australia Government, Natural disasters in Australia, website viewed 29 April 2011.Fraser B 1984, Macquarie book of events, p 573.Nott J & Hayne M, ‘How high was the storm surge from tropical Cyclone Mahina? Much, indeed, do we regret that we have no means of advising the lightships and pearling fleets of the approach of storms between Cooktown and Torres Straits. Cyclone Mahina was the deadliest cyclone in recorded Australian history, and also likely the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere.Mahina struck Bathurst Bay, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, on 4 March 1899, and its winds and enormous storm surge combined to kill more than 300 people. According to The Pearling Disaster, 1899, at Mahina’s peak Captain Porter took a barometric pressure reading of 27 inches of mercury (inHg), equal to 914 hPa. North Queensland, 1899", "The World Record Storm Surge and the Most Intense Southern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone: New Evidence and Modeling", Bathurst Bay, Qld: Cyclone (incl Storm Surge), http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54427620, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3690283, "Out of the Port Lecture: Cyclone Mahina", How high was the storm surge from Tropical Cyclone Mahina? North Queensland, 1899, Australia's worst cyclones: timeline, National Geographic. It was anchored around Bathurst Bay, Queensland, when the cyclone struck. A tsunami of 14.6 metres swept inland for five kilometres. • Este artigo foi inicialmente traduzido do artigo da Wikipédia em inglês, cujo título é «Cyclone Mahina», especificamente desta versão. Cest le pire désastre naturel à être survenu en Australie. Boat skippers, divers and crew came from the Torres Strait islands, South Pacific islands, South-East Asia, India, Sri Lanka, Japan and the Philippines to work on hundreds of two-masted luggers in fleets owned by companies such as James Clark and Co., based in Brisbane. More than 300 people died, the great majority of whom were divers and seamen from South-East Asia, the Torres Strait and Pacific islands who worked on the Thursday Island pearling fleet. 900 hPa, Category 5 Australian region cyclone in 1899, Whittingham, H. E. 1958, The Bathurst Bay Hurricane and associated storm surge. Available online at, List of Australian region cyclones before 1900, deadliest cyclone in recorded Australian history, Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre, List of disasters in Australia by death toll, "Tropical Cyclone Mahina: Bid to have deadly March 1899 weather event upgraded in record books", "Australia's deadliest natural disaster revealed – from 1899", http://reg.bom.gov.au/amoj/docs/1958/whittingham2.pdf, "The Crest Of The Wave battles through Cyclone Mahina", "How high was the storm surge from Tropical Cyclone Mahina? 9, no. In 1869 Captain William Banner from Sydney became the first European to discover commercial quantities of pearl oysters while searching for trepang (sea cucumber) in the Torres Strait, starting the Queensland pearling industry. As with other seafaring occupations of the period, one of the greatest threats to the safety of pearlers was stormy weather. 9–29.

Nevertheless, some people did survive, and newspaper reports carried stories of men and women swimming for days to reach land, with people who could not swim supported on their backs. Its shell had been harvested by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people to use as ornaments and tools for thousands of years. Cyclone Tracy had a pressure of 950 hPA and Cyclone Yasi, which crossed the North Queensland coast in 2011, registered 929 hPA. On 4 March 1899 this category 5 cyclone caused one of Australia's worst natural disasters killing over 400 people and destroying the pearling fleet berthed at Bathurst Bay. Information about emergencies, disasters and disaster resilience comes from many sources. Despite Porter having reported the destruction of the pearling fleet, The Duke of Norfolk did not actively search for other survivors. It is not known whether any Indigenous people died in the inundation, although there were reports that some had been swept out to sea. 1899: Cyclone Mahina at Bathurst Bay in Queensland is Australia’s deadliest, with over 300 deaths. Available on line at, Pixley, N S, Pearlers of North Australia: the romantic story of the diving fleets. A wave surge measuring 13 metres at Ninian Bay (adjacent to Barrow Point, 30 kilometres south of Bathurst Bay) extended inland for three to five kilometres. In his forecast on 6 March 1899 Wragge named a new tropical disturbance developing southeast of Sudest (Vanatinai Island, Papua New Guinea), Cyclone Mahina. According to a contemporary account of Cyclone Mahina, The Pearling Disaster, 1899: A Memorial (written by the family of one of its victims), Constable John Kenny of the Queensland Native Mounted Police was camped with four Indigenous troopers near Ninian Bay, about 40 feet (12 metres) above sea level and about half a mile (800 metres) inland, when they were inundated by sea water to waist-depth.

A British East India ship, The Duke of Norfolk, was the first to reach the area on 5 March, and picked up Captain Porter’s wife and baby from their schooner. The cyclone is considered to be the deadliest natural disaster in Australia’s history.

Australia Government, Natural disasters in Australia, website viewed 29 April 2011. If you have information you would like to contribute (documents, data and images), please click the button on the right to go to the submissions page. If you are interested to know the deadliest cyclone in the history of Australia, look at Facts about Cyclone Mahina.On 4th March 1899, Cyclone Mahina affected Bathurst Bay, Cape York, Australia. Divers were tethered to a lugger but were at constant risk of attack by sharks and crocodiles, as well as decompression sickness (‘the bends’). About tropical cyclones, Bureau of Meteorology, Storm surge preparedness and safety, Bureau of Meteorology. Queensland Government Meteorologist Clement Wragge’s forecast, The Brisbane Courier, 7 March 1899: The largest species of pearl oyster, pinctada maxima, was found in abundance in the Torres Strait up to the late mid-19th century. The National Museum of Australia acknowledges First Australians and recognises their continuous connection to country, community and culture. Cyclone Mahina 1899-03-05. Witnesses who visited the area shortly afterwards, reported seeing grass ripped from the ground and dolphin carcasses six metres above sea level. More than 300 people died, the great majority of whom were divers and seamen from South-East Asia, the Torres Strait and Pacific islands who worked on the Thursday Island pearling fleet. Nott J & Hayne M, ‘How high was the storm surge from tropical Cyclone Mahina? A tsunami of 14.6 metres swept inland for five kilometres.

by Jonathan Nott, James Cook University, & Matthew Hayne, Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Australia's worst cyclone disasters – Queensland State Disaster Management Group. There were 300 inhabitants killed because of storm and wind.

Le cyclone Mahina a frappé la région de Bathurst Bay (en), Australie, le 10 mars 1899, tuant plus de 400 personnes. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland 9(3): 9–29. However, Tropical Cyclone Mahina had already hit Bathurst Bay (167 kilometres north of Cooktown) around 11pm on Saturday 4 March. Jonathan Nott, Camilla Green, Ian Townsend and Jeffrey Callaghan, ‘The world record storm surge and the most intense Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone: New evidence and modelling’, American Meteorological Society, May 2014. This website contains names, images and voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Lawson Crescent Acton Peninsula, CanberraDaily 9am–5pm, closed Christmas Day Freecall: 1800 026 132, Museum Cafe9am–4pm, weekdays9am–4.30pm, weekends. Synoptic weather forecasting (the analysis of many observations taken simultaneously over a wide area) was well understood at the end of the 19th century.

In 1899, when radio communication was still in its infancy, weather forecasts and warnings were communicated to ships at sea via visual signals from a station. More than half of the fleet was destroyed during the night, and at least 307 people were killed. On 3 March Clement Wragge described conditions between Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia as ‘suspicious’. In Queensland the most northerly coastal signal station was at Grassy Hill, Cooktown. En une heure de la frappe de Mahina sur la côte du Queensland, la flotte de pêche aux perles à lancre dans le port de Bathurst Ba…

Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Australian Disaster Resilience Conference, Centre of Excellence for Prescribed Burning. A wave surge measuring 13 metres at Ninian Bay (adjacent to Barrow Point, 30 kilometres south of Bathurst Bay) extended inland for three to five kilometres.At Bathurst Bay, near Princess Charlotte Bay (Cape York), at least 307 crew members died from a pearling fleet of over 100 vessels plus other craft (with 152 sunk or wrecked, some found kilometres inland) as a result of the storm surge. AJEM Autumn 2000 - How high was the storm surge from Tropical Cyclone Mahina?

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