Floods in Australia

1893 Brisbane flood
Flooding in Newcastle in 2007
Queensland 2010-2011 floods

This is a list of notable recorded floods that have occurred in the country of Australia.

Notable floods

Date Location Australia all over Australia State(s) Fatalities Notes
1806 Maitland NSW 4
1820 Maitland NSW
1852 Gundagai NSW 89
December 1863 Melbourne (December) VIC 1 [1]
1869 Ballarat VIC 2 [2]
1891 Melbourne (July) VIC 1 [3]
1893 Brisbane flood QLD 11 [4][5]
1893 Maitland NSW 9
1900 Western Australian floods WA
1909 Western Victorian floods VIC 4
1913 Maitland NSW 2,760
1916 Clermont QLD 65
1923 Adelaide SA 3
1926 Southwestern Australia WA
1927 Wollombi NSW
1929 Tasmanian Floods TAS 22
1930 Maitland NSW
1931 Maitland NSW
1934 Yarra River VIC 35
1947 June 1947 Tasmanian floods TAS
1949 Maitland NSW
1950 Maitland, Gippsland, West Queensland NSW, VIC, QLD 1 [6]
1951 Maitland NSW
1952 Maitland NSW
1955 Maitland flood NSW 14
1955 All southern states (August) WA, SA, VIC, NSW, TAS 2
1956 Murray River flood NSW, VIC, SA
1970 All eastern states (December) QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS 16
1971 Canberra flood ACT 7
1971 Maitland NSW
1974 Brisbane flood QLD 16
1986 Sydney NSW 6
1990 East Coast NSW 7
1996 Queensland and New South Wales NSW & QLD 4
1998 Katherine
Townsville 		NT, QLD 3 [7]
June 2007 Hunter Valley/Maitland floods NSW 10
June 2007 Gippsland Floods VIC
February 2008 Mackay floods QLD
September 2010 Victorian floods (Sept) VIC
March 2010 Queensland floods (March) QLD
December 2010 Carnarvon/Gascoyne (December) WA
November 2010 – January 2011 Queensland floods (Dec – Jan) QLD 35 [8]
January 2011 2011 Victorian Floods (Jan) VIC 2 [9][10]
August 2011 Gippsland (August) VIC 1 [11]
February – March 2012 Eastern Australia (Feb – Mar) NSW, VIC, QLD 3 [12][13][14]
March 2012 Gippsland and Koowerup VIC 0
January – February 2013 2013 Eastern Australia Floods (Jan) QLD, NSW 6
April 2015 2015 Hunter Valley/Central Coast/Sydney Floods NSW 8 [15]
May 2015 South – East Queensland Flash Floods QLD 5 [16]
June 2016 Tasmanian Floods TAS 3 [17]
September 2016 Central West and Riverina Floods NSW 1 [18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Argus. 28 December 1863
  2. ↑ The Great Flood of Ballarat. pg 6. The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser. 23 October 1869
  3. ↑ The Floods in Australia: Heavy Losses Revealed. Launceston Examiner. 18 July 1891
  4. ↑ Whitaker (2005), 30.
  5. ↑ Kenny (n.d.).
  6. ↑ pg 1. The West Australian. Thursday 6 April 1950
  7. ↑ "Tropical Cyclone Les", Bureau of Meteorology
  8. ↑ "Death toll from Queensland Floods". Queensland Police Service. 24 January 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
  9. ↑ "Missing boy's body found". ABC News. Australia. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  10. ↑ "Victoria flash floods claim first victim". ninemsn.com.au. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  11. ↑ Heard, Hamish; O'Connell, Brigid (13 August 2011). "Gippsland farmer dies in floodwaters in bid to save cattle". Sunday Herald-Sun. Melbourne. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  12. ↑ http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8413110/thousands-evacuated-from-nsw-floods[]
  13. ↑ "Two dead in flood crisis gripping parts of Victoria, NSW and Queensland". Herald-Sun. AAP. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  14. ↑ "Australian flood clean-up begins". Radio Australia. 10 March 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  15. ↑ "Storm leaves eight dead". Daily Mail. London. 21 April 2015.
  16. ↑ Sandeman, George (2 May 2015). "Five die in Queensland floods after downpours in Caboolture". The Guardian. Australia. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  17. ↑ "Four missing as floods devastate Tasmania; NSW mops up". ABC News. Australia. 6 June 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  18. ↑ "Body found near Forbes identified as missing Burcher man Robert Linnane". ABC News. Australia. 6 October 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.

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