The RMS Quetta, sank in around 3 minutes, with the loss of 134 of her 292 passengers and crew. Ī late season cyclone hit the Eighty Mile Beach area (then known as Ninety Mile Beach), devastating the pearling fleet there, killing 140 people and around 20 boats lost. Several other ships and vessels were also wrecked in the cyclone, claiming another 15 lives. The cyclone crossed the Western Australia coast around Balla Balla, early on 22nd. The SS Koombana was lost in a cyclone between Port Hedland and Broome during a cyclone with all on board (around 158 people). The final death toll was 173, with over 2000 houses destroyed. The Black Saturday bushfires broke out on 7 February 2009, strong winds gusted up to 100 km/h, allowing the fires to spread quickly. The Vergulde Draeck bound for Batavia, was wrecked near Ledge Point on 28 April 1656. Possibly WA, but there is some doubt on this. The convict ship the Neva, was wrecked on Navarine Reef near King Island in the early hours of. Japanese prisoners of war practise baseball on the sports ground near their quarters, several weeks before the 1944 Cowra breakout, in which at least 235 people died Japanese prisoners of war Escape by Japanese POWs. The toll may have been higher because itinerants and Aboriginal Australians may be under-represented in the official count. There were two air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942, the first one began around 10 am, the second around 11:45 am. The first Japanese air raids against Australia. Japanese air raids on Darwin First bombings of Darwin. There were 105 deaths in South Australia alone (between 7 December 1907 and 8 February 1908). The Centaur memorial, in Point Danger, Coolangatta, Queensland, commemorates the sinking of the hospital ship AHS Centaur in 1943, which claimed 268 lives. Hospital ship torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. There has been speculation that there were survivors, who may have been assisted by local Aboriginal Australians. Sinking of Dutch ship Zuytdorp, which was wrecked off the coast near Kalbarri. At least 300 people were killed, but other figures estimate up to 1,000.Ĭoast near Murchison River, Western Australia Gippsland massacres – The Aboriginal people of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, known as the Gunai/Kurnai people, fought against the European colonisation of their traditional hunting grounds. Health authorities attribute 374 deaths to the heat wave. Sparked the Black Saturday bushfires (see below). Ī nine-day heat wave in early 2009 in which Adelaide recorded six consecutive days over 40 ☌ (104 ☏), a high of 45.7 ☌ (114.3 ☏) and a record overnight minimum of 33.9 ☌ (93.0 ☏) on 28 January. With 400 dead (another source states 406), it was Australia's worst civil maritime disaster. The Cataraqui was wrecked when it crashed into rocks off the coast of King Island in stormy weather at 4:30 in the morning on 4 August. Widespread heat wave killed 437, including 47 in Bourke, New South Wales. Heat wave killed 438 and sparked the Black Friday bushfires (see below). Most of the victims were children under the age of 4. Measles epidemic in Sydney city & inner suburbs. Smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal peoples Official death toll was close to 2,000 but actual toll much higher. Worst-affected areas were the WA Goldfields where over-crowding and un-sanitary living conditions were rife. This is a list of disasters in Australia by death toll.ĬOVID-19 pandemic in Australia, part of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.Īustralia's worst typhoid epidemic.
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